Content Writer and Editor

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) seeks a dynamic, student-centered, and forward-thinking Content Writer and Editor to provide visionary leadership. This role ensures that all marketing materials—whether print, digital, or online—are aligned with the brand’s voice, messaging, and style, guaranteeing consistency and cohesion across channels such as brochures, emails, stories, newsletters, magazines, and website content.

For digital content, particularly website materials, the editor plays a key role in restructuring and optimizing pages to enhance user engagement and SEO performance. This includes auditing and refining web copy to align with the site’s structure and maintaining an updated content calendar across all media outlets. The role also conducts comprehensive reviews to ensure all marketing pieces are current, factual, accurate, and reflect the latest brand standards, ensuring professional, error-free, and strategically tailored communications.

Responsibilities

• Oversee consistency and quality of all content, maintaining a uniform tone, style, and professionalism to build a strong brand image.
• Verify the accuracy of all information, including statistics, to uphold the institution’s credibility and trustworthiness.
• Ensure all content adheres to AP style and Embry-Riddle’s unique editorial guidelines.
• Maintain grammatical and syntactical accuracy, ensuring error-free content after multiple rounds of stakeholder review.
• Optimize content for search engines by incorporating keywords and following best practices for online readability.
• Audit and refine web copy to align with site structure and enhance user engagement.
• Collaborate across EMDS teams to support content needs.

About Us

For nearly 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With over 165,000 alumni worldwide, our impact spans the aerospace, aviation, defense, and technology industries.

Today, our faculty, researchers, and professional staff advance innovation in aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies, and innovators, they solve real-world challenges and shape the technologies of tomorrow. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose, and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.

Benefits

• Generous Time Off: Up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued. Additionally, enjoy 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
• Tuition Coverage: 100% tuition coverage for one undergraduate and one graduate degree for yourself, and discounted rates for your spouse and dependent children up to age 26.
• Retirement Contributions: ERAU contributes 6% of your base salary to your retirement plan and offers a 4% matching contribution with no vesting period.
• Personal Leave: 15 days of personal leave for non-exempt employees or 18 days for exempt full-time employees in your first year.

Requirements

• A strong academic foundation in writing, linguistics, and critical analysis to ensure clarity, precision, and creativity in content.
• Extensive training in grammar, rhetoric, and stylistic nuances through coursework and writing-intensive projects.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in content creation, editing, or marketing roles, preferably within digital media, journalism, corporate communications, or marketing agencies.
• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred.