Opportunities

OLGA is a young and growing creative agency that provides brand strategy, communications, design and copywriting services. We help our clients in the creative, cultural, and educational fields to distinguish their brands, launch new products and reach their target audiences.

We are not currently looking to fill any roles. Below are some roles we have recruited for in the past. If you would like to be considered for upcoming projects, please get in touch.

Project Coordinator

We are looking for a freelance Project Coordinator to join our team.

You'll help us to manage a large new project in higher education, liaising between suppliers and our project team.

You'll help us to make our project flow more efficiently.

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Editorial Assistant

We are currently looking for a freelance Editorial Assistant to join our team.

You'll be helping the editorial manager on a large project for a client in the higher education sector.

You’ll need to love good clear writing and meeting deadlines.

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Freelance Copywriters

We are currently looking for freelance copywriters to work with us on a new and exciting education project.

You'll have at least two years’ experience as a copywriter.

You'll be able to write and supply copy on a weekly basis over 6-9 months.

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Project Coordinator

Day rate: £150

Start date: TBC - August

About us:

About you:

The Project Coordinator will help us to manage a large new project, liaising between suppliers and our project team. You will help us to keep track of project budget and incoming and outgoing work, acting as the main point of contact for a number of suppliers. You will be proactive in helping us to refine processes for greater efficiency and be able to prepare quantitative and qualitative progress reports, ensuring standards are met through regular QA tests.

The ideal candidate would work from our East London studio for 3 days per week for the duration of the project, but we are flexible on this.

So what are we looking for?

The essentials:

Demonstrable organisational and project management skills
Strong interpersonal skills: able to communicate clearly in person and in written form
A strong stomach for administration
You understand how to break a large project into achievable tasks
Demonstrable ability to prioritise
Ability to budget
Highly digitally literate
You think ahead and are good at spotting potential risks on the horizon
You have the cojones (or the coño, we’re a woman-led company after all)to enforce rules and ways of working

The Desirables:

Enthusiasm for the arts and creative industries
Experience using online project management platforms, e.g. Trello
Some website experience, e.g. you own a blog or have been responsible for a website, so that you’re familiar with the lingo of a CMS
You take satisfaction from making things run like clockwork
You have a desire to understand how you can make something work more efficiently
Herding cats is your idea of fun
Project management qualifications or familiarity with the principles and methodologies of: PRINCE2, Agile or SCRUM

The Undesirables:

You’re someone who boards the train before allowing people off, you need not apply.
You’re the sort of person who dumps supermarket trolleys in canals
You’re that woman who put a cat in a bin.

Our ideal candidate will be looking to learn more about the business, as there may be the potential for this to become a more permanent role.

Please send a CV and covering letter by 9am Friday 3rd August to info@OLGAagency.com.

Freelance Copywriters

Day rate: £200

Start date: TBC - September

About us:

About you:

If you have copywriting experience and are looking for regular high-quality freelance work over the next 6-9 months, we may have something for you.

The essentials:

You can write and supply copy on a weekly basis over 6-9 months
You have a minimum of two years’ experience as a copywriter
You're able to write fresh website copy that speaks to humans, not just an ability to cram in SEO keywords
You can distil information, so that the essentials are immediately obvious to your readers
You have an understanding of SEO and how keywords work in website copy
You can prioritise your workload so as to meet deadlines
Because we are working with a public institution, it may be necessary for you to have Public Liability cover

The desirables:

You have experience of writing metadata (alt-tags, page titles, page descriptions)
You have written copy for a publicly funded institution or an educational body (school, university, college, workshop) in some form
You have some experience of bureaucratic sign-off procedures
You have an understanding of government guidelines for content accessibility for a range of reader requirements
You have experience of interviewing people and understanding their key messages
You can attend meetings at our studio in East London at agreed intervals to review progress and make human contact
You have used a content management system (e.g. Wordpress) to upload content

The undesirables:

You’ve ever pretended you didn’t see an elderly or pregnant person in order not to volunteer your seat on public transport
You put recyclables into the main rubbish

Please get in touch with CV, some examples of your work by Friday 3rd August at 9am to info@OLGAagency.com. We may ask you to fulfil a brief for us as an example of your suitability for the project.

Editorial Assistant

Day rate: £150

Start date: TBC - August

About us:

About you:

This freelance role will suit someone with an empathic and analytical mind. The ideal person will also be able to work both alone and as part of a small team. You'll be helping the editorial manager on a large project for a client in the higher education sector.

You’ll need to love good clear writing and meeting deadlines.

Tasks involved include:

Helping to analyse the clarity of a large number of web pages (content quality audit)
Proofreading website copy from our copywriters for spelling, grammar, sense, and adherence to style guidelines
Writing meta data (alt= tags, page titles, page descriptions)
Helping to manage the workflow of a small team of freelance writers
Selecting images and video from a database to use on a new website
Uploading new copy and selected images/video to the backend of a new website

So what are we looking for?

The essentials:

An understanding of basic SEO practice (what are keywords, what they do)
Editorial experience, min. 1 year. This can be from producing your own blog or through work or volunteering.
Copywriting experience
Administrative skills (you'll need to be comfortable with Excel and Word at minimum)
Organisational skills (you'll need to keep track of schedules, be able to change priorities as necessary and work with the project manager and Project Coordinator on best ways to achieve project completion)

The desirables:

Experience writing metadata. This could be for your own blog or for work/volunteering.
Experience with content management systems (Wordpress, etc.)
Experience conducting interviews with people at a range of levels, and turning these into written content and distilling the salient points
You'll need to be able to work in our East London studio 1-3 days per week; the role may also require travel to our client in West London.

The undesirables:

You don’t like puppies (we’re next door to a doggy daycare, and that’s decidedly the best thing about our new office).
When you buy a train ticket at a machine, you leave your receipts in the machine so the next person can't distinguish their ticket from your unwanted receipt.
You’ve ever thrown rubbish out of a moving vehicle. Or a stationary one.