Social Media Editor

Social Media Editor talkSPORT

talkSPORT is the worlds biggest sports radio station and a globallyrenowned digital publisher with a social footprint of almost 10M followers.

The talkSPORT team spans across several departments including editorial social audience and tech and we are looking for a new Social Media Editor to help manage and oversee the scheduling and delivery of website articles and graphics across our social channels.

Your role: We are seeking a knowledgeable and passionate Social Media Editor who has a proven track record of driving referral traffic and generating engagement across various platforms with experience of managing teams.

Leading our websitefirst social media posting the successful candidate will be responsible for owning the websites output across Facebook Twitter/X and YouTube. This will involve overseeing a small team of Social Media Assistants liaising with the editorial team on story selection and publishing identifying hooks within content that appeal to our social audience and analysing realtime data to inform what to post where and when.

Day to day you will:

• Offering guidance and support to the rest of the team in addition to managing the monthly rota

• Posting and scheduling a variety of talkSPORT articles across multiple social platforms

• Creating visually appealing images that promote and complement website stories

• Working collaboratively and at speed to post breaking news and jump on trending topics

• Contributing to daily article ideation sessions based on whats trending across social media

• Communicating with our video team on scheduling times to ensure there are no clashes

• Monitoring traffic trends in realtime and continually feeding back any key insight or learnings

What we are looking for from you:

Essential

• A knowledge of and passion for a wide range of sports and social media platforms

• Proven track record of managing social accounts preferably within the sports media industry

• Experience overseeing teams and helping to direct/mentor junior members of staff

• An understanding of how to optimise posts for different social media platforms

• An ability to pick out bits of information within articles that appeal to social audiences

• Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possessing general graphic design skills

• Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week

• Strong communication skills and a real team player with good work ethic

• Flexibility to work across evenings and weekends on a fiveofseven days rota

Desirable

• Knowledge of UScentric sports including American Football and Basketball

• Editorialled brain with experience of working closely with writers and editors

• Datadriven by nature who enjoys analysing performance and iterating strategies accordingly

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation our people create awardwinning national and local radio and podcasts which are mustlistens for millions across the UK Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT the worlds biggest sports radio station delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with worldclass broadcast talent including John Pienaar Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. In 2022 we launched TalkTV a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK delivering a schedule of news current affairs entertainment and sport with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion we strive to maximise and encourage every individuals potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board D&I strategy & training creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employeeled networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering preexisting conditions

• Discounted gym memberships ClassPass at Home weekly virtual HIIT yoga and run club classes

• Bikes for Work scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know at any stage whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.