Copywriter & Content Strategist

USA (Remote)

$70K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and shape the end-to-end copy and content strategy for higher-ed clients, guiding positioning, audience narratives, and multi-channel campaigns from research through execution, while collaborating across teams to ensure accuracy and impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Research institutions, academic programs, audiences, competitors, and career outcomes to identify meaningful differentiators and messaging opportunities
  • Develop institutional and program positioning, audience narratives, value propositions, messaging frameworks, and proof-point guides
  • Create headlines, taglines, and supporting narratives that translate strategy into distinctive creative
  • Write advertising copy for Meta, Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, and other digital channels
  • Write website and landing-page copy, including program pages, audience pages, FAQs, metadata, CTAs, and content outlines
  • Apply SEO, AEO, and GEO principles to improve content clarity, discoverability, and usefulness
  • Develop content strategies, editorial plans, audits, and content maps aligned with enrollment goals
  • Draft email nurture sequences and recruitment communications across the prospective student journey
  • Interview students, alumni, faculty, and subject-matter experts and develop stories, profiles, testimonials, and thought-leadership content
  • Write brochures, viewbooks, guides, video scripts, presentations, and other recruitment or brand materials

Requirements

  • Typically 3–7 years of professional marketing copywriting or content strategy experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in a writing-intensive field and/or marketing; master’s degree preferred
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating short-form advertising, website or landing-page copy, longer-form storytelling, and positioning or strategic messaging
  • Demonstrated experience contributing to content strategy, brand positioning, or integrated marketing campaigns
  • Experience translating complex offerings into clear and compelling messaging is highly valued
  • You bring original ideas, listen actively, ask useful questions, support claims with evidence, and write with clarity, specificity, and personality
  • Playful and creative writing style that can stop the scroll and bring inspiration, humor, or curiosity to the work

Preferred

  • Experience working in an agency or other multi-brand, multi-stakeholder environment is a plus
  • Higher education, enrollment marketing, education, or professional learning experience is preferred

Benefits

  • Paid federal holidays
  • 10 days of paid vacation annually
  • 10 days of paid sick leave annually
  • 5 additional paid days off, including your birthday and a personal day
  • QSEHRA health reimbursement
  • 401(k) retirement plan with up to a 5% employer match and immediate vesting
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Viv Higher Education

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Viv Higher Education is a Boston-based, woman-owned full-service marketing agency for colleges and universities. Specializing in strategy, creative asset development, and media campaigns for enrollment-focused initiatives, we implement best practices in pre-college, undergraduate, graduate, and non-credit marketing, lead generation, and conversion.We put strategy first and reach the right audiences. We are experienced in marketing to a wide range of unique audiences, including high school students; Latinx, military, LGBTQ+, and international students; and online learners. We emphasize research-driven value propositions in the right places to increase leads, applications, and enrollments. We know how to collaborate in complex and matrixed university environments. We understand the priorities of faculty, administrators, employers, communities, alumni, and other higher education stakeholders, and pride ourselves on our ability to facilitate win-wins that result in strong outcomes for all. We are curious. We learn as much as possible about our partner organizations and their needs at the beginning of a project and throughout our work together. True curiosity welcomes many voices and seeks constructive feedback. We couple this curiosity with clarity: we never lose sight of the end goal, which is to deliver successful and scalable solutions that help organizations achieve their objectives. Finally, we pride ourselves on being personable, nimble, and extremely responsive to our clients. Our focused team provides the kind of hands-on collaboration that sets us apart from larger web and marketing firms.

Founded in 2019
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
32 employees (15 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$70K/yr – $85K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (41% of company)
Median Tenure
1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.6%
Direct
26.8%
Referral
8.7%
Social
7.2%
Paid
11.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~32
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Copywriter & Content Strategist

Viv Higher Education · USA · Remote