Health/Beauty Writer Job in Johannesburg, Craighall, Randburg
Caxton Magazines Current open jobs in South Africa 2024
Recruitment Vacancy : Health/Beauty Writer Work in South Africa
| Remuneration: | Cost to company |
| Benefits: | Pension fund, Provident Fund |
| Location: | Johannesburg, Craighall, Randburg |
| Education level: | Degree |
| Job level: | Mid |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #HBESS |
Job description
Essentials Magazine, one of South Africa’s most influential brands which has an already-established and highly-engaged readership currently seeks a talented and motivated beauty and health writer. A beauty and health aficionado with an insatiable appetite for all things beauty & health related. We’re looking for a seasoned Writer with experience across print and digital. The position requires an individual who has a keen understanding of the brand and who will demonstrate the drive, willingness and passion to ‘live the brand’. In return, we promise you a highly collaborative environment, a diverse workload keeping you continually stimulated and an open forum for the expression of ideas.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ability to write health copy for print and online
- Write beauty features on a range of topics from makeup to skincare and hair for print and online
- Coordinate beauty shoots
- Develop and write editorial copy across all touch points and manage current copy workflow and process.
- Lead product launches from an editorial perspective.
- Represent the brand at health and beauty functions
Essential requirements
- Undergraduate degree in communications, Journalism or relevant alternative
- Four+ years of professional experience writing and editing copy in the beauty industry.
- Experience working with designers, marketing/social strategists and producers to deliver content in all forms across any and all platforms.
Personal Skills/Attributes
- Excellent commercial awareness
- Ability to adapt to changing environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be detail and deadline oriented with excellent planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to work thrive in a fast paced, fluid environment.
- A keen interest in health and wellbeing
- Contacts and established relationships within the beauty industry are an advantage
- Strong conceptual and brainstorming skills.
- Actively participates in a wide variety of social media activities in both work life.
- organization and communication skills.
- Eager team player who loves new challenges.
Only short listed candidate will be contacted.
Contact details
Zainab Mohamed
Caxton Magazines
zainab@caxton.co.za