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inventia | Travel beyond the ordinary is a boutique tour operator for once-in-a-lifetime global travel experiences. We are based in the most beautiful part of the Ruhr region, in the city of Essen, close to Lake Baldeney. A particular focus of our trips is on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.

We provide our customers with a very high level of service, utilizing all the modern working and communication methods at our disposal. Our wonderful customers reward us by entrusting us with their high-quality travel plans, often several times a year. "Beyond the ordinary," indeed.

We also make no compromises when it comes to our employees:

We want our new employees to be a perfect fit for us—and us for them. We are looking for professionals in each field who are passionate about our shared mission and willing to go the extra mile. In addition to high-quality results, we place great value on constructive internal communication and a cosmopolitan and cooperative mindset.

We offer you a home office workplace, flexible working hours, and a performance-based salary with many special benefits and bonuses. We offer ongoing incentives for personal and professional development and want to grow together with our employees.

Due to our positive development, we are looking for a project manager for content creation and maintenance as well as marketing for our polar expeditions (Arctic and Antarctic).

What we offer you:

• A permanent position working from home
• Flexible working hours when working from home in Germany, with some fixed appointments (core working hours, regular meetings, customer meetings, presentations, etc.)
• A PC/laptop with accessories
• A flat rate for IT services such as Wi-Fi, etc.
• Depending on experience: Good remuneration during the training/probation period (6 months) with a subsequent increase. The increase can take place after three months if the training is successful.
• Long-term, reliable cooperation with opportunities for personal development
• Annual salary increase for good performance
• Bonus payments for exceptional reliability and quality of results after one year
• Discount on your own trips, after 6 months
• Proportional commission payments for customer referrals
• 30 days of vacation per year
• Ship tours, business trips/fam trips to get to know our program
• Once or twice a year, a team meeting lasting several days at a special location from our worldwide program, with strategy sessions and professional training
• Personal development in a growing company

I look forward to receiving your application.

Stephanie Gräf

I am looking for several freelancers to create and maintain content for our website.

You create pages with travel offers such as cruises, round trips, hotels, cruise ships, and expedition ships for my websitewww.inventia.de.

To this end, we provide you with travel descriptions as website links or PDF files, which you transcribe into a template in the dashboard. You transfer texts, itineraries, dates, and prices into the specified fields and know how to adhere to the text formatting. I provide you with sources for photos and videos; if necessary, you also research these yourself and format the files so that they can be uploaded and processed in the media library. You also prepare Yoast entries.

The trips and texts are predetermined and are developed in accordance with linguistic and stylistic guidelines, and the content is inserted based on a task list. A deep understanding of high-quality travel and the structure of travel advertisements is a must. We expect confident writing skills, the ability to think outside the box, and high-quality results.

You can see sample pages here:

Example of round trips:

A Bliss of Rwanda

Example for hotels:

Longitude 131˚

Northern Lights Tours:

Aurora Village – Winter panoramic view of the Northern Lights

Please address the following skills in your application and describe your level of knowledge.

What you should bring with you:

• You can confidently write and create hotel and travel descriptions, taking into account inventia's tone of voice.
• You are experienced in editing travel texts and travel descriptions.
• You transfer travel data to an Excel list, regularly check expired trips, and update new data in a timely manner.
• You work in a focused and goal-oriented manner—only the quality of your results and their timely delivery count, and particularly good results are rewarded additionally.
• You have very good knowledge of WordPress and the Divi theme.
• You can use the following plugins without any problems: Yoast
• You should be familiar with copyright and usage rights, e.g., for images/photos/videos, image credits, and image SEO.
• You should have a basic understanding of image editing (size correction, etc.) (including Canva).
• You speak and write English very well and can translate English text into German.
• You have a perfect command of German spelling.
• They work very carefully, check their own work, and strive to deliver complete and error-free pages.
• You have a strong affinity for high-quality travel.
• You have the ability to think outside the box in your work and to make meaningful suggestions for improvement.
• An independent and, above all, responsible approach to work and adherence to deadlines are essential for our collaboration.
• Since I plan tasks/projects in Asana, an Asana profile is necessary: www.asana.com.

Freelance work is a long-term commitment.

Here's how it works: You receive a request with all the information about the website to be created via Asana and have 24 hours to accept or decline the job. You then create the pages by the specified deadline, which is usually around one week or longer. On average, you create at least one to two websites per week (depending on your available time). The deadline for submitting the print-ready page is always Tuesdays or Thursdays.

How to ensure your application is considered:

• Please send your applicationby emailonly.
• You include a cover letter with your application in which you describe and self-assess your knowledge of each individual desired skill.
• You include links to reference pages that you have worked on for other clients in your application.
• In your application, you confirm that you are available on a long-term and reliable basis for at least approx. 15–20 hours per week.
• You name your fee.

Contact person: Stephanie Gräf

I look forward to receiving your offer for cooperation.

Stephanie Gräf