Job Title: Junior copywriter
Location: Clearbox, The Printworks, 35-39 Queen Street, Belfast BT1 6EA
Contract: Full-time (37.5 hours per week), permanent
Salary: Up to £24,000*
Start Date: March 2025
We’re looking for a junior copywriter to join our editorial team.
We need someone who knows the difference between there, their and they are (we have the same standards as Sabrina Carpenter) and loves to tell a story.
The role is based at our Belfast city centre office and is a full-time, permanent position. You’ll spend three days a week in the office and two working from home.
Your benefits will include:
- Unlimited annual leave
- Health insurance
- A health cash plan
- Life insurance
- Five ‘Work From Anywhere’ days per year
- A fridge full of fizzy beverages and a Sage coffee machine for caffeine fix preferences
We tell good news for clients including Amazon, Beavertown Brewery, Oatly, and Deliveroo. We also write for local brands like Taste & Tour, Morelli’s Ice Cream, Epitome Living and Calibro Workspace.
Interested?
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The Clearbox editorial team is responsible for interviewing hundreds of people - from CEOs and directors, to engineers and community ambassadors - throughout the year. We write up the stories we hear to create compelling case studies that are used in press materials, as social media content, and for internal communications.
The editorial team is also responsible for drafting press releases and ‘thought leadership’ content (this is an industry term for hot takes on subjects in our clients’ areas of expertise). The role of an editorial team member also covers identifying potential stories for our clients based on conversations with them, what’s happening in the news, and plain old creative thinking.
Applicants should be able to write long-form and short-form content, as social media copy creation also falls under the editorial team’s responsibilities.
What will you do as a junior copywriter?
The role will see you support senior editorial team members with copywriting for press materials and social media plans.
Our editorial team is also intimately involved with the traditional PR arm of Clearbox, so we’re looking for someone interested in learning how to generate media coverage, build relationships with journalists, and manage story flows. Whilst this won’t strictly be copywriting, it’s important to have a basis of PR knowledge as a junior team member to understand the workings of Clearbox as a whole.
Essential criteria
Exceptional spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Being personable and approachable
The ability to work independently and proactively
Being respectful and trustworthy
Desirable criteria
Being a big reader
An understanding of the differences between long and short-form copy
Interest in the news, both locally and further afield
If you join us from a non-degree background, you’d join Zoe Kerr on our list of Absolute Beginners - you can read about our apprenticeship programme here.
Clearbox has won Best Employee Development Programme at the Irish News Workplace and Employment Awards for two years in a row (2023 and 2024), so if you join us you’re guaranteed to be supported. We help our team members grow professionally with personalised progression pathways that take them where they want to go with their careers, and you’d be no exception.
If you want to surround yourself with some of the best creatives and brand copywriters in the business (our clients, not us - we don’t brag!), then we’d love to have you.
Our values are important to us, so before you hit send on your application, make sure you align with the below.
- Don’t be a dick. We respect each other, we respect our clients, we respect our suppliers, and we respect ourselves.
- Creativity. We have original ideas that add value. We are curious and passionate.
- Hard work. We’re the hardest workers in the room. We believe there are no shortcuts to success.
- Humility. Every day is a school day. We’re never too old to learn something new. We reject know-it-alls. We listen more than we talk.
- Consistency. We can be counted on to act in a predictable manner. We show up every day.
- Accountability. We are answerable for our actions and the actions of our team. We uphold commitments to each other and to our clients.
- Care. We care. For our team, our clients, our standards, our results, our community, our impact.
To apply for the position, please send your CV and an outline of a grammatical faux pas you despise (or the funniest you’ve seen) to hello@clearboxcommunications.com by the end of the day on the 7th February.
* £20,000 (apprentice) - £24,000 (non-apprentice)
