GMS | Trends Writer

 This is a paid freelance, remote position

GiveMeSport is a leading sports media brand delivering breaking news, trending stories, analysis, and viral moments across the biggest leagues and athletes in the world. As a worldwide leader, GiveMeSport operates at a rapid pace and is always looking for experienced and passionate contributors who can create original high-quality content in a timely manner.

GiveMeSport (GMS) is looking for a New Trends Writer with a proven track record of creating written content that generates referral traffic from Facebook.

This role is for someone who understands what makes sports content work on social media — from spotting the right story or trend, to writing a compelling headline and packaging an article in a way that drives clicks and engagement.

Your Responsibilities

• Ideate and produce timely sports articles designed specifically to generate referral traffic from Facebook
• Create promotional images on Facebook to generate referral traffic, leaning heavily into click incentive and engagement.
• Write compelling, curiosity-driven headlines that encourage Facebook users to click through to the article
• Identify emerging stories, trends, debates and talking points across a range of sports
• Produce a minimum of 6 articles per shift, working efficiently in a fast-paced publishing environment
• Adapt content ideas and headlines based on what is performing with audiences
• Monitor content performance and use data to inform future story ideas, headlines and content packaging
• Work closely with editors and the wider content team to identify opportunities for high-performing traffic
• Maintain strong editorial standards, accuracy and attention to detail while working at speed

• Fully remote
• Opportunities to pitch original ideas
• An amazing community of like-minded people to talk sports with on a daily basis

If you are interested in this role, please send us the following documentation by uploading it in the relevant fields below:

• Your CV
• Provides a URL to a Facebook page as an example