Editor, Digital Content (Chinese) | M+ Museum — Hong Kong SAR, China

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Located in Hong Kong’s WestK, we are one of the leading museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. The museum reflects our unique time and place, building on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

(This is a fixed-term contract position of 2-year with possibility for renewal subject to organisational needs and individual performance.)

You will be responsible for

collaborating with peer teams and product stakeholders to deliver strategically sound, high-impact digital content;
shaping M+’s online voice, determining message hierarchy and ensuring a consistent message across multiple digital touchpoints in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified);
crafting user-friendly content that provides a seamless experience across various M+ digital platforms, including the M+ website, social media, digital signage, and other visitor-facing digital channels;
translating, editing, fact-checking and proofreading Chinese digital content;
liaising with third-party translators and freelancers to ensure translation is completed in a timely manner, within budget and is of a quality consistent with M+ standards;
helping to maintain website content calendar, media files and other content appearing online;
helping to maintain and update the M+ Chinese guidelines periodically with respect to grammar, clarity, accuracy, accessibility, and institutional style;
helping to maintain and update digital content best practices, including SEO and alt-text;
managing the procurement process to engage third-party translators, editors, and other service providers for various projects; and
contributing to big-picture strategies that will drive the long-term development of M+, a museum of visual culture based in Hong Kong with a global vision.

You should

possess a recognised university degree or equivalent;
have 3-5 years of experience in digital journalism, digital media / communications, or digital content marketing;
have Cantonese and/or Putonghua native with excellent spoken and written English;
have excellent writing and editing skills in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, and experience in translating/localising/transcreating text from English to Chinese;
be conversant in Chinese-language digital content best practices including SEO and alt-text management;
be able to use appropriate phrasing with an understanding of the cultural nuances between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese;
have experience in publishing web content on CMS platforms;
be highly organised, with strong attention to detail;
have strong people skills and be able to work well with a variety of personalities; and
have passion in visual-culture topics such as design, architecture, art, or moving image.

Applicants invited for interview will be asked to take a writing and editing test and provide a portfolio of previous clips.

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before following date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

01-05-2025

Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.

All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.

For more information, please visit https://www.westk.hk or contact:

Crystal Yu /+852 22000114

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