Content Editor - Liverpool Echo

What will the role involve

You will support a team of reporters to deliver great content including words pictures video data and interactives ensuring we get the highest possible levels of audience engagement. You will organise and manage the publishing of fresh engaging accurate and legallysound news and lifestyle content. Live coverage is a vital part of our newsrooms so you will use your excellent news sense to know when to launch live blogs for big stories and how to maintain momentum as readers flock to our sites.

You will be a handson people manager supporting and inspiring your team to pitch and write great stories. You will oversee our websites and social media channels helping to develop our social strategy. You will play a crucial role in developing our Customer Value Strategy focusing on newsletters and looking for opportunities to maximise our audience loyalty. This role will involve working shifts on a rota basis including evenings and weekends so a flexible approach is required. 

Qualifications :

Who are we looking for

You are an experienced senior journalist with your Senior NCTJ/NQJ Level 6 journalism (or inhouse equivalent) qualification or relevant time served with extensive UK media law knowledge. You have a proven track record of writing and editing digital news content in a fastpaced newsroom environment. You are a first class writer and storyteller with a thorough understanding of our news brands and audience engagement strategies. You have a good understanding of SEO search social and digital audience behaviour. 

You are social media savvy and have experience utilising various social platforms including but not limited to Facebook X Instagram and TikTok.. Ideally you have prior people management experience or you are keen to step up into a management role utilising your communication motivation and people skills to do so. You have excellent local knowledge and can use this to inform your content decisions.

Additional Information :

What can we offer you

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;

• Help saving for your retirement  join our pension scheme and well match contributions up to 6
• 25 days holiday per year when you join. After three five and ten years service with Reach youll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day  an additional days leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave  including maternity paternity and adoption and youll be eligible after just six months employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan  free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UKs top 50 Inclusive Employers everyones invited to join our events programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support  including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
• Awesome career opportunities  youll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background circumstances age disability gender identity ethnicity religion or belief and sexual orientation.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime