The Opportunity
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) seeks a dynamic, student-centered, and forward-thinking Content Writer and Editor to provide visionary leadership.
The Content Writer and Editor ensures that all marketing materials—whether print, digital, or online—are aligned with the brand’s voice, messaging, and style. By overseeing both traditional and digital assets, the editor guarantees consistency and cohesion across all channels, including 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, ensuring an updated content calendar throughout all media outlets.
Additionally, a content writer and editor conducts comprehensive reviews to ensure all marketing pieces are current, factual, accurate, and reflect the latest brand standards. This quality control process ensures that all communications are professional, error-free, and strategically tailored to meet the needs of both digital and traditional audiences.
Our Content Writer and Editor is indispensable to the Content Writing Team because this person will oversee:
1. Consistency and Quality: this role makes sure all content maintains a consistent tone, style and professionalism. This consistency is crucial for building a strong brand image that resonates with prospective students and their families.
2. Accuracy and Credibility: verifies the accuracy of all information, from statistics to information. This accuracy builds the institution’s credibility and trustworthiness, which is essential for helping prospective students and their families make informed decisions.
3. AP Style Compliance: ensures all content adheres to AP style and unique editorial guidelines of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, maintaining a uniform and professional appearance across all communications.
4. Grammar and Syntax: after many rounds with stakeholders, it is important to maintain the accuracy of the main objective with good grammar and error-free.
5. SEO Optimization: enhances the content’s online presence by optimizing it for search engines. They skillfully incorporate keywords and follow best practices for online readability, helping the institution reach its target audience more effectively.
6. This person will be an asset across all EMDS teams.
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 more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
Generous Time Off: Enjoy up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued throughout the year. You'll also receive 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
Tuition Coverage: Get 100% tuition coverage for yourself for one undergraduate and one graduate degree, 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: Relax with 15 days of personal leave for non-exempt employees or 18 days for exempt full-time employees in your first year.
Qualifications
- A strong academic foundation in writing, linguistics and critical analysis, ensuring 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 preferred.
To submit your application for this opportunity, please visit the Embry-Riddle Career Site and search for requisition number R311781. Please attach all relevant materials to your application when you apply online. Complete submissions include:
Cover letter
Full CV
Contact information for at least three professional references (please note that references may be contacted as part of the interview/screening process)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training, and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications, and abilities. Embry Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university policy. Embry Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, in its employment, educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, or other school-administered programs or activities. For further information, please visit our website.
Embry-Riddle is not seeking assistance from staffing or recruitment agencies. All agencies are directed to contact [email protected] and should not reach out to hiring managers or staff.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Minimum 3-5 years experience in content creation, editing, or marketing
- Strong academic foundation in writing, linguistics, and critical analysis
- Extensive training in grammar, rhetoric, and stylistic nuances
- AP Style compliance and adherence to university editorial guidelines
- SEO optimization experience for web content
- Experience auditing, restructuring, and optimizing website content for engagement
- Ability to verify accuracy and fact-check marketing content
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and has not been reviewed or approved by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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Retirement Support — Retirement contributions include an automatic university contribution plus additional matching with immediate vesting, which feedback suggests is a standout feature. Additional options like long-term care integrated with life insurance reinforce long-term financial security.
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Parental & Family Support — Tuition waivers cover employees and extend to spouses and dependent children, including undergraduate degrees and some graduate study. Paid parental leave for eligible employees further supports families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes a robust holiday schedule with a campus winter closure and a personal leave program that grows with tenure. Many roles observe a four-day summer workweek and receive additional paid time for community service.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Insights
What We Do
Embry‑Riddle has been at the forefront of ground-breaking aeronautical milestones since the early days of flight as the world's largest and most respected university specializing in aviation and aerospace. With over 155,000 graduates around the globe, Embry‑Riddle is leading the future – and changing it. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is a nonprofit, independent institution offering degree programs at our residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as online through our award-winning Worldwide Campus. Programs at Embry-Riddle cover the various fields within applied science, aviation, business, computers & technology, engineering, security, intelligence & safety and space. The University engages in extensive research that aims to address the unique needs of the future of these industries – thanks to cutting-edge labs and facilities, expert faculty and a dedicated student body. All academic programs at Embry-Riddle are approved for veterans' educational benefits and are accompanied by personalized academic advisement. Visit www.erau.edu for more information. Follow our campuses on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube for a real-time view of life at our campuses. CONTACT INFORMATION: Arizona: [email protected] // 800-888-3728 Florida: [email protected] // 800-862-2416 Worldwide: [email protected] // 800-522-6787
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