The company

GovernorHub is a cloud-based SaaS product helping to make the world of school Governance easier and more effective - ultimately benefiting the children who our future depends upon. It’s used by over 100,000 school governors in over 1/2 of all schools across the country. GovernorHub is part of The Key Group, whose other products include The Key - the country’s most trusted provider of knowledge and know-how to education leaders determined to make a difference - and Arbor - the country’s fastest growing school MIS.

The role

We are looking for a creative individual with strong writing skills to join us as a digital content writer for our market-leading support services. As a content writer you will research, write and maintain practical and engaging articles and design and create training content to meet the needs of school governors, academy trustees and other school leaders. You will:

Support the product manager with a strong pipeline of content ideas based on a clear understanding of user needs, and intelligent decision making
Carry out user research, as appropriate, to better understand members’ needs and how they use our products
Research and write authoritative and practical articles to address the wide range of issues faced in schools today, combining rigorous desk research with use of authoritative sources from inside and outside the education sector, and internal expertise
Develop and write practical, bitesize training content for a variety of governance roles, leaning on multimedia content where relevant.

The ideal person

You will:

Have at least 2 years’ experience of creating digital content
Have first-class research and writing skills, and experience in creating high-impact, practical digital content
Be able to research any topic quickly and effectively, gaining a good level of expertise
Have a creative spark and strong commercial intuition to spot opportunities for high-impact content
Be familiar with what school and academy governance is and what role governance plays in education
Be passionate and empathetic towards the needs of the school sector
Have excellent attention to detail.