We are looking for a Facilitation Content Writer!
APPLICATION ROUND CLOSED

Facilitation Experience | Remote | Part Time or Full Time

SessionLab is the leading platform for workshop facilitation and process design. We are working to empower people to design and run better workshops, with more than hundreds of thousands of professionals visiting SessionLab and using our facilitation resources every month.

We are looking for a content writer with facilitation experience to help us create engaging and truly useful content for our audience of facilitators and anyone designing and leading workshops.

We’re building the best online hub for facilitators and you will play an integral part in helping us achieve this goal.

Content is one of the core methods of reaching and engaging our audience. We care about creating high-quality content that is genuinely helpful to facilitators and helps them lead better workshops and meetings. We currently do this through blog posts, our library of workshop activities and templates, our newsletter, and our community space.

You’ll be creating new short and long-form content, reviewing and improving existing pieces, and finding new workshop methods and templates to add to our public facilitation library. 

Have a great idea for a new workshop template or for a series of facilitation topics you’re passionate about? We support it! We want you to bring your experience as a facilitator and passion for facilitation to everything you do at SessionLab. 

We are a bootstrapped and profitable software business, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, and working across Europe with a fully remote 8-person team (team members currently in Sweden, Hungary, UK, Russia, Spain, Croatia, Austria, and Portugal). Therefore, we are looking for somebody who is self-motivated, independent, and comfortable working in a remote-first environment.

You’ll be our second marketing hire, working closely with our Head of Marketing and CEO, and we’re incredibly excited to meet you!

What we are looking for

  • You’re passionate about facilitation and have first-hand experience in designing and running workshops, meetings, or training sessions
  • You have experience with creating short and long-form content. You can show examples of previous work, ideally related to software or facilitation
  • You take pride in the work you publish and are willing to go the extra mile to create high-quality educational content that people find genuinely useful
  • You have an advanced command of English and can write and edit at a native speaker level
  • You are comfortable working in a small startup where cross discipline work is encouraged
  • You seek to take on responsibilities and take ownership of the work you do
  • You care about helping create a fair and inclusive working culture
  • You thrive working independently, but also enjoy collaborating with people from different disciplines and you always try to look at the big picture
  • Experience working remotely
  • You are based within UTC-8 and UTC+3 and have a few work hours overlap with 8am to 3pm UTC

Advantages (not a must but a big plus)

  • You’re familiar with publishing, updating, and managing content on WordPress or other content hosting platforms
  • Experience in social media management and community engagement
  • You're comfortable leading webinars, customer workshops and participating in customer-facing communications
  • Experience with creating and editing images, videos, and other visual content assets
  • Experience with email marketing
  • You have knowledge of SEO best practices and know how to create content that ranks
  • You’re familiar with creating and optimizing marketing funnels to improve conversion.
  • Experience with online facilitation and collaboration tools and an interest in industry trends (Mural, Miro, Butter, etc.)
  • You've worked for a SAAS organization before

So what will I be doing?

We’re on a mission to be the best place for facilitators to learn and grow their practice alongside designing workshops and meetings.

We have a popular collection of facilitation content in our workshop library and blog, but we need help to keep growing and to create exciting new resources for our audience of facilitation professionals. 

This is where you come into the picture: we need somebody who can work on creating new content and maintaining and updating resources while bringing their passion and knowledge of facilitation to the table.

This role has the scope to be full-time or part-time and we can be flexible for the right candidate. We would expect the ideal candidate to be able to commit to 20-40 hours per week though are open to arrangements that work for both of us. If you’re an active freelance facilitator, we want you to be able to continue facilitating while helping create content at SessionLab!

In more practical terms:

  • Creating original and compelling content to engage and educate facilitators including blog posts, new facilitation methods, templates, newsletters, social media posts, and more
  • Enhancing and updating existing content to reflect trends, SEO and CRO requirements, changes in the facilitation landscape, and our own editorial needs
  • Keeping up to date with facilitation trends and best practices and sharing them within the organization and our community
  • Participate and lead workshops and webinars we conduct for our community
  • Conducting SEO and content research to help generate ideas for exciting content that will generate meaningful results
  • Working with other teams to write marketing copy as necessary
  • Assuring consistency and quality, and acting as a champion of SessionLab’s brand voice and tone
  • Contribute to the SessionLab community and help engage facilitators in our community space

Why is this great for me?

  • Opportunity to get involved early in building and scaling a company in a fast-growing market
  • Your role and responsibility will grow as our company grows
  • Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)
  • Stable working environment that values work-life balance
  • Motivated and friendly co-workers
  • You will also have a chance to travel a couple of times per year to live company meetings (pandemic permitting 😕)
  • Open-minded working culture where we encourage sharing opinions and feedback
  • You are passionate about building quality content and engaging in the world of facilitation 🙂

Compensation

The compensation range for this role is between €40,000 to €65,000 annually on B2B contract or matching gross salary as an employee (official employment status only available in certain countries). The actual compensation offered to a successful candidate will be based on relative experience and skills.

For a part-time role you will be compensated at a proportional rate.

The compensation includes paid holiday days according to your country of residence plus your local holidays as paid time off, and additional remote working stipend or home office setup support.

Application Process

An outline of what to expect from the application process.

  1. Fill in and submit the application form – we will try to get back to you within 2 working days, but sometimes it might take slightly longer. Note that we’ll ask you to submit a writing portfolio with relevant samples as part of the application form so it’s good to have those ready to go.
  2. A short (up to 30-minute) video interview where we’ll get to know each other better and explore how well we would fit together!
  3. A short (~1 hour) take-home content assignment.
  4. A follow-up video interview (60-minute) where we will debrief your assignment and assess if your skills and experience are right for the role.
  5. The final candidates may also be invited to a paid take-home assignment. This will include creating a piece of content in around 8-10 hours over the course of a week.
  6. If all goes well, we will make you an offer and if you accept, welcome you to our team!

Want to learn more about us?

Check out below for some bits about who we are:

  • As a fully remote team we live in UK, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Russia, Croatia and Austria.
  • Half of us have kids.
  • We tend to meet live (when not in pandemic) twice a year and enjoy some nice activities (like cooking, escape rooms and board games).
  • We do also have social virtual activities (and always looking for new ideas on fun ways to spend some virtual time together).

Ready to join us in creating the best online hub for facilitators?

The application round for this position has been closed. Want to be considered the next time we hire for our marketing team? Do fill in the form below.

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