Contract Food Writer, Taste Of Home

About Us:

TMB (Trusted Media Brands) is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company engaging more than 200 million consumers worldwide across streaming TV, social media, web and print. Our portfolio of brands including FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, and The Pet Collective, is powered by content that's inspired and created by our fans. Together our community sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at www.tmbi.com.

About the role:

As a contract Food Writer for Taste of Home, you are key to our recipe publishing initiative: to infuse our recipe content with advice, images and expertise. Working closely with the Managing Editor, you use your culinary knowledge and polished writing skills to create engaging, on-brand recipe content to help us reach our lofty traffic and production goals. You are clear, creative, organized and flexible.

Contractors in this role will have the capacity to write at least 25 recipes per month. Applications are accepted on our site and contracts and payments will be managed through a third-party platform.

About you:

A whip-smart food writer who thrives on deadlines, you use your culinary expertise and friendly writing style to craft instructive, in-depth recipe articles that follow SEO (Search Engine Optimization) best practices and sparkle with the Taste of Home brand voice. Organized and efficient, you consistently deliver error-free copy that will be edited and published quickly. At home, you love to cook and track what is happening in the food world.

Your day-to-day:

• You write SEO-driven recipe content according to weekly publishing goals, adhering to AP and house style

• You support editorial strategy with a full understanding of editorial integrity, brand voice, shareability and engagement, and knowledge of SEO principles and social networks

You have:

• 3+ years of full-time experience writing and/or editing digital food content; professional culinary experience a plus

• Research skills and an understanding of what makes a reliable source

• Proven knowledge of SEO best practices, a CMS (content management system) such as WordPress, a project database such as Airtable, basic HTML and AP style

• Keen organization skills, consistently meeting deadlines and catching all the details

• Effective communication skills: comfortable accepting and applying constructive feedback

• Solid knowledge and understanding of the digital landscape

• Ability to work independently

• A keen familiarity with, and interest in, the food and food-lifestyle space

TMB embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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