Copywriter

**Job Title**: Copywriter
**Department**: Marketing
**Position Status**: Part Time (16 hours per week), One Year Contract (April 2024 - April 2025)

About Tourism Whistler

We love where we live and we bring that energy and passion to everything we do. We're a team of collaborative, mountain-loving individuals and we show up and achieve great things professionally and personally. Creating a positive and fulfilling experience for our team is high on our list of priorities. And we're proud to be a workplace that requires respect for our people, our partners, and our environment. Because the people make the place, and this place is pretty special.

What We Offer
We like to make work meaningful and to live life fully. Join the team at Tourism Whistler and be part of a fun, supportive organization that truly values work-life balance. We're looking for people who want to make the most of the unique Whistler lifestyle and share our values of passion, energy, achievement, and respect.

**A few ways that we walk the talk**:
Culture & Connection
- A casual office setting (aka: no formal dress code)
- Bi-monthly all staff events and departmental team building (the fun kind, we swear)
- Down dogs in the office (that's actual dogs and the occasional lunchtime fitness/yoga session)
- Fun, supportive, and collaborative team environment

Health & Wellness
- Access to a wellness app (hello, Headspace)
- A wellness fund to support your health and recreation in Whistler. Think funds for your ski/snowboard or bike park pass, yoga or gym memberships, golf lessons, or other wellness offerings that support your well-being
- An annual Health & Wellness calendar with wellness offerings to prioritize mental health and well-being

Flexibility
- Part time (16 hours per week) flexible schedule offering work-life balance and time to enjoy the beauty of Whistler
- Whistler based, with a hybrid approach that balances in-office and remote work

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities
- Act as a Tourism Whistler ambassador, living our purpose and vision with passion & energy, achievement and respect
- Proactively seek relevant content for Tourism Whistler newsletters that will generate interest, retention and sales amongst the Whistler Insider database
- Provide copywriting support to Tourism Whistler's marketing department
- Ensures all copywriting maintains a consistent voice that is aligned with the Whistler and Tourism Whistler brands

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Passion and knowledge of Whistler, mountain resorts and the tourism industry
- Minimum 3 years’ writing experience for various media (online and print)
- Post secondary degree and/or certificate(s); Journalism degree/diploma an asset
- Proven ability to produce creative, response-driven copy across various media channels
- Excellent business writing skills
- Exemplary language, editing and proofreading skills
- Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple projects and handle constant change
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, with an eye for detail
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision and work collaboratively in a team environment