Digital Content Assistants

We have an opportunity for two Digital Content Assistants to join a busy Education Publishing team at one of the World’s leading scientific societies in Cambridge, on a temporary basis for up to nine months.

The roles will support a project to move our award-winning teaching resources to a new online home. Our goal is to help teachers in the UK and Ireland deliver an enriched chemistry curriculum, and do so with confidence. This work will help those teachers by giving them well presented and high-quality chemistry resources that are easily discoverable within an accessible online platform.

We have 2000 teaching resources on our main website (plus other sub-sites and offline content) in a variety of formats, from Word documents to interactive simulations. The job of moving, reorganising and re-presenting those resources in our new site is a complex one, requiring teamwork, great attention to detail, creativity, an understanding of chemistry, and a consistent ability to deliver.

These are great roles for anyone looking to develop a career in digital publishing or education technology.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Uploading and publishing content to our new content management system, optimising for user experience and discoverability.
• Editing education content for presentation and layout, applying key words and other metadata.
• Working with the Education Content Manager to improve user experience across the site.
• Quality-checking content.
• Other related tasks as required.

We are looking for candidates with the following qualities:

Essential:

• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as an effective team member.
• Ability to deliver routine tasks reliably and provide creative input when needed.
• A-level or equivalent in chemistry or other science.

Desirable:

• Demonstrable proofing and editing skills.
• Experience learning and applying novel systems to solve problems.
• Working knowledge of content management systems.
• Degree in chemistry or other science.
• Awareness of information architectures and types of online user experience.

At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we will support your development and provide excellent benefits.

If you are interested, please apply before the end of our closing date.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Download the full job description here.