Social & Engagement Editor
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Job Description
The Sun Online is the biggest digital newsbrand in the UK. The Suns multi-award-winning Audience department sits at the heart of our newsroom with our talented journalists publishing the best coverage of news sport TV and showbiz lifestyle and family values. The team constantly evolves driving record traffic across all platforms growing new audiences and building engagement and loyalty with our readers.
Were looking for a talented highly motivated resourceful individual with a deep knowledge of social media platforms as well as engagement tools such as newsletters and polls to join our award-winning team at the heart of the newsroom.
Day to day you will:
Report to the Head of Social Media.
Play a key role in the ongoing development and execution of The Suns social media and engagement strategy including the transformation of our video distribution strategy.
Curate content from across to satisfy a growing range of audience demographics.
Edit and maintain The Suns social media channels to a high standard in close conjunction with the rest of the team.
Curate edit and distribute our vast range of newsletters every week to our loyal subscribers including implementing new growth strategies..
Contribute to The Suns adoption of emerging social platforms and tools and take responsibility for the growth of The Suns new social channels.
Work directly with editorial digital video picture design commercial and marketing teams ensuring their respective demands are met.
As a team ensure the newsroom has sufficient insight to produce stories and take responsibility for their subsequent distribution on social media channels and subscribers.
Focus on targets and be clear on what is required in order to meet them.
Work flexibly including early morning evening and weekend shifts (currently hybrid WFH and office)
What we are looking for from you:
Wide knowledge of social media platforms and current affairs
Strong knowledge of the value newsletters and engagement tools provide.
Unflappable under pressure and delivering work at a consistently high standard
Proactive and display a willingness to take on any task
Positive attitude and great team player
Take initiative in order to achieve desired results
Organised and a good problem-solver able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches
Can demonstrate an understanding of the The Sun brand and audience both print and digital
Application process
Please submit your application via the apply now button (include your Twitter and Insta handle in your CV)
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland our newsbrands include The Times The Sunday Times The Sun The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT Times Radio talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK and we have market-leading local radio stations across 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. Our world-famous brands provide news analysis opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print audio and video events and experiences our brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
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 take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and well-being of our staff. Some of what we offer include:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
30 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;
A wide range of training is available plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing 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.
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