KornerStone Staffing Recruitment for a Creative Writer

KornerStone Staffing - Our client, a forward-thinking, fast paced company, is looking to hire qualified candidates to write and produce various projects and blog regularly, to expand our company’s digital footprint, awareness, subscribers, and leads.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Creative Writer - Intern

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• This role requires a high level of creativity, attention to detail, and project management skills, it is also at the core of the marketing team, and others will rely on your work every single day

Responsibilities

• Develop original content for fiction, nonfiction, and short stories.
• Use the written word to express story lines and ideas.
• Write content for magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and blogs.
• Produce content for broadcasts, motion pictures, and other types of performance.
• Develop scripted material for the Web and other communication devices.
• Conduct extensive research on various topics.
• Write outlines and rough drafts.
• Appropriately source and cite resources.
• Edit content for correct spelling and grammar.
• Work with editors to revise and rewrite sections.
• Perform extensive fact-checking.
• Arrange material in chapters or parts.
• Maintain blogs to keep in touch with fans and readers.

Education and Experience

• Students applying for this internship should be Marketing/Business or Language majors, with 2 years of experience on the Web and a solid understanding of youth markets.
• Minimum of 1 years’ blogging experience required
• Past experience producing offline/online content as well as channel-specific knowledge (blog, SlideShare, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Past experience building audiences either online or offline.
• A dual-minded approach: You’re highly creative and an excellent writer but can also be process-driven, think scale, and rely on data to make decisions.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong research and analytical skills
• Extremely Strong Writing and Editing Skills (Journalism or English Major a plus).