Associate Content Writer

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DALLAS TEXAS • Dallas, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Content Writer turns oral presentations, including sermons, manuscripts, and product details, into compelling copy that attracts readers and supports marketing and ministry goals. The role creates and edits content for magazines, broadcast, weekly transcripts, devotionals, books, and other publishing resources. It also supports the Lead Content Writer and helps organize sermon and publishing content for future use.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Marketing, or Communications.
• Strong writing portfolio.
• Impeccable command of grammar, syntax, tone adaptation, and storytelling.
• Hands-on experience with content management systems such as WordPress, HubSpot, or Squarespace.
• Experience with writing applications such as Grammarly and Google Workspace.
• Ability to balance multiple deadlines and adapt quickly to shifting project priorities.

Responsibilities

• Create magazine articles and condense or reformat devotionals.
• Research the sermon database for articles suited to each monthly magazine theme.
• Clean up rough sermon transcripts for magazine use, including fact-checking and verifying Scripture.
• Find unused devotional content related to magazine themes and edit it to meet word-count requirements.
• Create broadcast Q&A content by researching relevant sermon and book material, cleaning transcripts, and producing succinct answers ready for broadcast.
• Clean up weekly sermon transcripts, typically two to four days per week.
• Copyedit weekly sermon transcripts by converting spoken content into polished written form, adding paragraph breaks and subheadings, checking facts, verifying Scripture, researching and verifying quotations and illustrations, creating citations, and formatting content for electronic and print devotionals.
• Perform similar editing work on the historic sermon library.
• Assist the Lead Content Writer with PTV daily devotionals.
• Adapt sermon transcripts into content for the annual Daily Devotional, including electronic devotionals and the print book.
• Edit previously used devotional content for style consistency, clarity, current relevance, and factual accuracy.
• Proofread Pathway Publishing projects in layout, review devotional galleys, and proofread other books and resources.
• Create a database of PTV resources and sermon content to track reuse in print resources and add hyperlinks that tag themes or keywords for publishing-team searches.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level