[Hiring] Part Time Copy Editor @Aquent

Role Description

• Content Quality Control: Copyedit editorial pieces, show titles, descriptions, and social content to ensure accuracy, proper style, clear structure, and legal soundness.
• Workflow Management: Coordinate continuous copy flow among editors, fact-checkers, and a team of up to a dozen editorial staff members.
• Website Maintenance: Build, format, and maintain digital pages using WordPress and custom digital publishing tools.

Qualifications

• Copyediting Experience: 2+ years of professional copyediting experience for a daily, weekly, or monthly publication or high-volume publishing/journalism environment.
• Style Guide Mastery: Strong command of AP and Chicago styles.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with Content Management Systems (WordPress) and web-based production tools.
• Editing Mechanics: Exceptional command of English grammar, line editing, structure, tone, punctuation, and proofreading under tight deadlines.

Requirements

• Deadline Pressure: Proven ability to manage high-volume turnaround times in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to partner effectively across a multi-editor copy desk.
• Editorial Judgment: Ability to go beyond surface-level proofreading to evaluate stories for taste, legal issues, sentence flow, and journalistic integrity.

Preferred Experience

• Sports & Culture Domain Knowledge: Sports-editing background (or high comfort reading sports copy) and familiarity with pop-culture content.
• Digital Media Production: Background in digital publishing, web media production, and deep feature editing.

Role Challenges & Profile Exclusions

• Strict Role Focus: Requires a dedicated copyediting background in publishing, journalism, or corporate communications.
• Non-Matching Backgrounds: Candidates whose experience is exclusively in general marketing, copywriting, social media management, public relations, or TV production will not align with this position.

Compensation

• The target hiring compensation range for this role is $25/hr to $28/hr. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

Company Description

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.