Digital Development Editor

A chance has come up to join our vibrant digital publishing team, to help in developing a suite of student-facing products for use in the further education and higher education sectors. This will involve working in Study Skills products such as Skills for Study, Cite Them Right, and Social Work Toolkit. More broadly, there will be opportunities to help shape the features that go into our portfolio products and companion sites.

We are looking for a compelling storyteller and tech enthusiast. Someone who can identify opportunities and present content in a way that responds to our audience’s needs.

The Digital Development Editor will work closely with editorial and production teams in our Skills-based Studies department and Bloomsbury Digital Resources, and report to the Senior Digital Development Editor.

This an ideal position for someone with unbounded curiosity, who is keen to explore how technology and media can be utilised to bring content to life.
 

The role
 

• Collaborate with colleagues to define content goals, research, and turn ideas into solutions
• Curate and develop content to share your vision with colleagues and for the purpose of iterative design
• Use our content management systems and production tools to update our products
• Conduct day-to-day product maintenance tasks involving input of systems data, which require careful attention to detail
• Publish materials; such as text, images, video, and interactive content, with accuracy and appropriate metadata
• Contribute to all stages of the digital publication process including editing and proofreading
• Use data, information and feedback to inform production work
• Use a range of presentation methods, appropriate to the audience, to convey key content messages
  
   

Knowledge, skills and experience 

Essential:

• Strong communication skills to explain insights and strategies to non-technical stakeholders and to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams
• Applies a keen eye in identifying inconsistencies and ensuring high quality deliverables
• Takes a logical and structured approach to decision making, effectively sequencing steps
• Demonstrates judgment and effective analysis of problems
• Thinks creatively in order to solve problems and implement new ideas through collaboration
• Proven organisational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and delivering on time and on budget
• Self-motivated with a calm, professional approach and a can-do attitude
• Comfort in experimenting with emerging tools relevant to content creation
• Ability to exercise agency by taking the initiative, proactively influencing outcomes

Desirable:

• Confidence with and experience of using content management systems
• A working knowledge of HTML / XML / programming language or other concrete examples that demonstrate structured problem-solving and comfort in data manipulation
• Previous experience of working on large projects and/or working in agile production environments
• Experience of prototyping, iterating content
• Involvement in working with people from different departments to integrate new features and content into digital products

Employment type

The role is a full-time, permanent position.

Salary range

£30,750 - £33,000 pa

Additional information

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based, 3 days home based. Allocated office days for this role are: Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 18th June 2025.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications.

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

 Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and 14 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources.

For additional benefits see below

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.