Digital Content Editor at The Francis Crick Institute

We are looking for a talented writer with a great eye for detail to join our Digital and Creative team, helping manage our website content and producing long-form articles to engage our varied audiences across our digital channels. 

The ideal candidate will have a passion for digital communications, and will edit and update copy across the site. As well as taking a user-focused approach to identifying and developing engaging stories from sometimes complex sources, they will also have a solid understanding of best-practice in digital engagement – from search engine optimisation (SEO), accessibility and copyright/intellectual property (IP) – and be able to take a pro-active role in evaluating our content and related practices to ensure our digital content is continually refined and improved.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and commission digital content, with a particular focus on written copy, to engage our varied online audiences with the work and science of the Crick. 
• Copyedit and fact-check website and long-form digital copy, ensuring it is up-to-date, factually accurate, on-brand, grammatically correct, accessible and search engine optimised. 
• Monitor, evaluate and make recommendations on website content using tools and techniques such as Google Analytics, user-testing, focus groups, online surveys. 
• Write articles and long-form content translating the Crick’s science and research for a non-specialist audience; 
• Source, edit and advise on photography and images for the Crick’s website. 
• Lead on website content production projects, collaborating with colleagues from across the Crick. 
• Train website editors on best-practice writing for the web, website accessibility, and how to use our website CMS. 
• Work with our Digital Communications and Content Manager to develop and implement an SEO strategy for our public website. 
• Work with our Digital Communications and Content Manager to help shape and implement website governance processes, to ensure our site is up-to-date and well maintained.  

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website using the ‘Apply‘ button above.
• The closing date for applications is 29.01.2024
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.