Content Strategist & Writer, Digital Marketing

A role written with History majors in mind

Highland Park, Illinois | Full-Time | On Site Only

Since 1999, Scholarships.com has helped more than 26 million students find money for college. We operate one of the internet’s largest scholarship search platforms, using content, data, and technology to make scholarship search more understandable, useful, and efficient for students and families.

Role Overview — Why It Matters

History majors: if you enjoy following a trail of evidence, sorting reliable information from noise, and explaining why details matter, this may be your kind of job.

As a Content Strategist & Writer, Digital Marketing, you will research and create student-facing web and email content, review scholarship information for accuracy, and support targeted marketing campaigns. Your work will help a student understand an opportunity, help a campaign reach the right audience, and help our team keep the underlying information accurate and current.

We value actual intelligence first: your ability to assess sources, understand context, write clearly, and catch what others miss. AI tools may help organize information, compare drafts, identify items for review, or check grammar and clarity. They do not replace careful research, fact-checking, editorial judgment, or accountability for the final work.

What You’ll Do

• Create, update, and edit website pages, targeted email campaigns, and selected social content for students, parents, educators, and scholarship providers.
• Research scholarship-related topics and translate source material into clear, useful, student-friendly content.
• Use audience awareness and basic SEO practices—clear headings, focused keywords, and logical page structure—to help users find and understand content.
• Support email, digital, and postal campaigns from brief to deployment: draft and review content, check layouts, complete QA, and manage send schedules.
• Review scholarship submissions and listings for accuracy, completeness, eligibility requirements, deadlines, award amounts, and understandable descriptions.
• Monitor campaign measures such as opens, clicks, and conversions; turn findings into concise observations and practical next steps.
• Use research tools, email platforms, spreadsheets, dashboards, CMS tools, and AI tools to work efficiently; independently verify facts and apply human editorial judgment before content, data, or recommendations are published or implemented.
• Keep campaign, client, vendor, purchase order, insertion order, and billing records organized; identify and document better processes.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; History majors are especially encouraged to apply.
• Relevant experience through employment, internships, campus organizations, research, publications, or comparable work is preferred. Exceptional recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Strong research and source-analysis skills: you can verify facts, reconcile conflicting information, and recognize when something needs another look.
• Clear writing, editing, proofreading, and communication skills; you can make complex material concise without making it vague.
• Critical thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to distinguish strong evidence from assumptions or incomplete information.
• Attention to detail and a practical project-management approach to multiple deadlines.
• Comfort learning digital tools, including email platforms, spreadsheets, CMS tools, dashboards, basic marketing analytics, and AI tools used as a support—not a substitute for source analysis, accuracy, or editorial responsibility.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience applying research, source analysis, narrative, and context to a large student-facing platform.
• Practical skills in content strategy, SEO, targeted email marketing, campaign QA, performance reporting, and scholarship-data curation.
• Experience using technology responsibly: knowing what to automate, what to verify, and when human editorial review matters most.
• Direct exposure to leadership and collaboration with marketing, operations, and product/engineering colleagues, with room to grow.

Logistics and How to Apply

This is a full-time, in-office position at Scholarships.com, 513 Central Avenue, Suite 300, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. This role is not remote and not hybrid.

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Central Time, with a one-hour lunch break.

Salary range: $42,000–$62,000, aligned with experience.

Benefits include Blue Cross / Blue Shield PPO health insurance, a 401(k), 15 paid days off annually for vacation, personal, family, or health needs, plus 7 paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Christmas Day. We encourage employees to plan and take meaningful time away from work to rest and recharge.

To apply, submit:

• A resume.
• A brief cover letter explaining how your Philosophy background prepares you for this role.
• A short analysis exercise: Write one prompt you would give an AI tool to review a hypothetical email campaign’s results, identify what additional information it would need, and recommend what should be tested next. Then, in 2–3 sentences, explain what you would independently verify before relying on the AI’s response.