October 30, 2024 Freelance Opportunities!

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JOURNALISTS

• Afar needs pitches on quiet travel—think unplugging, recharging, and resetting. Pitches due Nov. 13

• Business Insider needs people who had another kid in their 40s because they thought it would be easier

• Sports Illustrated’s High School On SI needs freelance sports writers with experience in high school sports writing

• Financial Times needs a US newsroom summer intern

• Pudding needs visual essays 

• The Motley Fool (US) needs a freelance writer/stock analyst

• Ascent (US) needs a remote freelance personal finance writer

• The David Donald Fellowship for Data Journalism provides financial assistance to attend a Data Journalism Bootcamp or the NICAR conference

• A publishing company (US) needs a freelance pet journalist (10 hours/week, $22-$25/hour)

• Last Word on Basketball needs freelance writers

• Wealth of Geeks Travel needs travel writers ($250)

• ClickOut Media needs writers for iGaming

• More to Her Story needs freelance correspondents  in the Middle East & North Africa, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe

• Global Press is accepting applications for the Shifting Democracies Reporting Fellowship for Women Journalists

• The Hechinger Report needs an education reporting intern ($700/week)

• ICFJ’s Reporting Grants applications are due this November 1

COPYWRITERS & WRITERS

• The 2025 Andy Awards are open to submissions from ghostwriters and collaborators honoring outstanding nonfiction collaboration in business and thought leadership, memoir and narrative nonfiction, and prescriptive nonfiction

• The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers is accepting applications from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers who have not published a book

• OwlCrate Press Future States of Stars, a sci-fi/dystopian fiction anthology for upper YA, New Adult, and Adult audiences needs submissions from writers. Submissions are open until Nov. 30 at midnight EST. OwlCrate will pay “all contributing authors, both solicited and unsolicited, at a better-than-minimum industry rate (10 cents per word) as per SFWA guidelines. In addition, all authors will take part in a profit share that will further compensate our authors generously.” 

• Realtor .com needs a freelance mid-weight/senior copywriter for direct response marketing

• Heflin Media Group needs a book ghostwriters for its agency (passing on details to a $20k client)

• Punch (UK) needs a contract short-term copywriter for a 3-month contract

• Football League World needs remote writers for EFL football, Blackpool FC, Walsall, Wrexham, etc.

• iLoF needs a part-time technical writer

• Copytree needs freelance technical writers

• MindWrite (UK) needs mental health writers

• Jane E. Kenney needs a freelance longform listicle writer for a new publication ($500 paid trial assignment)

• Upscope needs a freelance copywriter

• Gimaguas needs a freelance copywriter who is fluent in English and Spanish

• Digital Nod needs freelance article writers on tech, crypto, finance, etc.

• CMiC needs freelance writers with experience in the construction industry

• McDill needs freelance B2B copywriters

• The Influence Agency needs a freelance content writer who knows SEO and UX design principles

• Spot & Tango needs a freelance blog writer

• PostDoc needs a scientific writer to turn a research report into articles

• Resilience Media needs NFL writers across Sporting News, OnSI, and Newsweek

• Creative Circle (St. Louis/Chicago) needs a freelance remote copywriter ($35-$40/hour)

• FREENOW needs a freelance marketing writer who can write in English and Spanish

• Printify (EMEA) needs freelance content writers for long-form content and video scripts

COPY/CONTENT EDITING, FACT-CHECKING, & CONTENT DESIGN

• Optimist needs a remote content strategy advisor (16-20 hours/month, $1-1.5k/month)

• Home Solutions needs a freelance editor who is available through December

• Articulate needs a full-time remote manager of copywriting

• SharePoint needs a freelance copywriter (20-25 hours/week, $45-$55/hour)

• Launch Potato needs a remote editorial assistant

STRATEGISTS & SEO

• Creative Circle (Indianapolis) is recruiting a remote/hybrid paid search specialist for programmatic campaigns (32-40 hours/week, $44-$45/hour)

• We Are Social needs a freelance strategist for a sports partnership

PR & MARKETING

• AllTrails needs a contract affiliate marketing coordinator (30 hours/week, $35-$40/hour)

• Passionfroot (NYC) needs a full-time founding marketer  

SOCIAL MEDIA & COMMUNITY

• Cashroom Burger (Boston/Maine/Massachusetts/NH) needs a remote part-time social media expert ($30-$40k)

• Bite Sized Media needs a freelance part-time social media manager

• SheSpeaks needs an Instagram influencer for Hallmark Holiday at Walmart

ART DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN

• Creative Circle (Toronto) needs an on-site freelance presentation designer ($45-$50/hour)

• Moondream .ai needs a senior brand/UI designer

• Takafa needs a product designer for productive stationary

• Zinc Network needs freelance designers for its talent pool

• Astrum-Earth needs a 2D/3D animator and modeler for a YouTube channel

• One Wild Goose needs a mid-weight graphic designer

• Blacklist needs themed entertainment creative design freelancers 

• Wardog Studios needs freelance 3D weapons and props artists

• Profiles Creative (Manchester) needs a freelance designer for a fashion brand

• Ella and Jo needs a freelance copywriter for packaging copy, email copy, scriptwriting

• Together (UK) needs a freelance artworker through Christmas

• Marketo needs a contract remote email designer

VIDEO/PHOTO PRODUCTION & EDITING

• Dan Bradica Studio needs a part-time freelance photo retoucher

• Ride Shotgun (UK) needs freelance retouchers

• Persephonica (UK) needs a freelance video producer for two podcasts (£250 to £350 per day)

• Trafilea needs a senior photo editor

• Veritasium needs a remote assistant editor

• Profiles Creative (Leeds) needs a freelance camera op

• Austin Bowling needs a short-form video editor

• Scroll needs a remote AI video editor

• By Candace Jones needs a video editor to edit vlogs and podcast videos

AUDIO/PODCAST PRODUCTION & EDITING

• Connection Collaborative needs a freelance audio editor

• Financial Times needs a US audio summer intern ($16.50/hour)

• The Recording Den (Bethany, CT) needs a voice-over actor (woman with a North American/English accent)

WEBSITE/APP DEVELOPERS

• Late Checkout needs a full-time full stack web developer

• Creative Circle needs a full-time hybrid front end developer ($50-$55/hour)

• The Motley Fool (US) needs a full-time Snowflake data architect

• The Motley Fool (US) needs a full-time PHP/WordPress developer

VARIOUS

• AllTrails (US) needs a remote trail data consultant (25-30 hours/week, $18-$25/hour)

• Financial Times needs a US data summer intern

• Senja needs a part-time customer support success agent

• Gwenna Kadima needs a remote part-time DEI project consultant ($40-$50/hour)(s/o Jasmine Williams)

• Token needs a fractional chief product officer (10 hours/week, $100/hour)

COMPANIES LOOKING FOR MULTIPLE FREELANCE ROLES

• TY Tiomico needs a social media editor and music video editor

• IPG Health (NYC) needs a freelance business operations specialist, engagement strategists, account supervisors, etc.

• ROT needs freelance motion, 3D, brand, and UX/UI designers, fullstack developers, videographers/photographers, copywriters, and project managers