Freelance Editor - Outdoor Content & Collections (NL)

About komoot

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. And we're good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. Today, with over 40 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we’re well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide. 

Join our fully remote team of freelance editors and change the way people explore!

About the role

The backbone of komoot is a huge repository of route recommendations and outdoor tips — handpicked Highlights, popular routes and tailored Collections — built by passionate editors with plenty of local knowledge and a wealth of experience in their sports.

To help inspire our growing community with the best outdoor content, including engaging Collections for our tourism and brand partners, we’re looking to strengthen our existing editor team in the Netherlands and Flanders. Applicants are expected to cover both markets.

This is a project-based, freelance and fully remote position. Editors are most successful in this role when they can offer a regular time commitment and are available for a longer-term working relationship. The time required on a weekly basis can vary greatly between a couple of hours in low season to up to 20 hours during busy periods.

What you will do

• Use your outdoor knowledge of bike routes, hikes or trail runs to inspire our userbase
• Research and plan amazing routes on komoot, visualised with inspiring Highlights, to form the basis of Collections
• Review, polish and set up new Highlights on the komoot map to bring content to life and help our users plan their own adventures (https://www.komoot.com/help/highlights)
• Write engaging and grammatically flawless intro copy, route descriptions and Highlight tips to create inspiring Collections, as well as to provide practical information
• Review and edit existing content to keep it accurate and looking fresh
• Set up Highlights and Collections for tourism, sport and brand partners of komoot (https://www.komoot.com/collection/2599350)
• Support your country team with peer-proofreading and quality control 
• Research images in our own database as well as from different external sources to bring your content to life
• Help with ad-hoc content tasks and projects such as
• content support for our Media, B2B, Marketing and event teams
• localise the copy of relevant Collections, written by our existing editors in other countries, for our Dutch-speaking userbase
• quality check and prepare community Collections for our Discover Feed 
• assist with the maintenance and improvement of content

The payment for this position works per task or Collection delivered. The average for a Collection which may take two days to complete, is €330, based on an hourly rate of €20.50. The rate is the same, regardless of where you are based. You’ll need to be set up as a freelancer where you live and be able to invoice us.

You will be successful in this position if

• You have in-depth expertise of MTB, cycling, hiking or trail running routes which are located within the Dutch-speaking markets: Netherlands and Flanders
• You love planning routes for yourself and your peers and you are often already using komoot to do so
• In your region(s), you understand different access laws/countryside code of conduct or know where to find this information
• You love to share your passion for the outdoors with like-minded people
• You are digitally-minded and always adopt the latest tools to improve your own efficiency
• You have an eye for the right images to illustrate your route content plus you know what image resources to use and how to attribute these correctly
• You  feel at home using Google Docs, project management tools and content management systems  
• You are available to work for komoot on a weekly basis and for a longer period of time
• You must have native-level language skills in Dutch and additionally be fluent in English
• You can write inspirational and grammatically correct copy
• You are highly motivated, excited about taking on additional responsibilities, and are structured and target-oriented in your approach to tasks
• Experience with geographical databases, especially OpenStreetMap, will be a bonus

Why you will love it

• You will utilize all of your greatest passions: the outdoors, researching, route-planning and writing
• Your content will inspire millions of people, from seasoned outdoor-lovers to novice hikers, runners and cyclists, and will help to further establish our community in Europe
• We encourage you to work from wherever you want, be that on a beach, in the mountains, from home, or anywhere that lies between the time zones UTC-1 and UTC+3
• Enjoy a creative and responsible role that offers a great amount of flexibility!

Sound like you? 

We would love to hear from you! Please click the apply button and share with us:

• Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience
• Your availability (hours/week)
• Your location 
• Your answers to our questions (see the application)