News & Features Writer

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Our Future Health Full time

We need a News & Features Writer to allow us to deliver best-in-class public awareness material. You will be responsible for elevating our ability to deliver powerful news and features to our target audiences, and play a crucial role in the growth of Our Future Health’s editorial function.

To succeed in the role, you will be able to write compelling copy across various story formats, with an emphasis on emotional case studies. We need someone who is able to speak to our volunteers and find human-interest stories that will help to motivate more members of the public to sign up to Our Future Health. You’ll be able to visit our clinics around the country, know how to get people to share their health stories, and have an intuitive sense of how to tell those real-life stories through words and images.

Ultimately, you will help Our Future Health to engage with people across various platforms, attracting interest and support from numerous audiences. It's a huge opportunity to be part of something that will have a lasting positive social impact.

We’re at the start of an incredible journey. Our Future Health is committed to building a resource that truly reflects the UK population so that we can identify differences in how diseases begin and progress in people from different backgrounds. There are big challenges in privacy, security and processing data. We’re harnessing both genetic and clinical data to create the most detailed picture we’ve ever had of people’s health.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Writing stories that capture the essence of Our Future Health. Stories will span a range of styles and formats, including news stories, features, case studies, 1st person ghosts, and audio/video scripts.
- Conducting weekly visits to clinics, to find story leads and conduct interviews
- Performing research on different topics.
- Analysing and interpreting findings by breaking down data.
- Uncovering relevant newsworthy stories.
- Ensuring your pieces are accurate, informative, and written with our audience’s needs in mind.
- Generating and pitching ideas for new stories and series.
- Staying up-to-date with local, national and international affairs.
- Working with the Communications team to research and write news and feature content.
- Developing a deep understanding of our forums and creating feature content that brings the best of our community’s conversations to a wider audience.
- Building an audience for our content by promoting it via onsite, offsite and social media channels.
- Providing production and scripting support to our Videographer and the wider Communications team.

**Requirements**:
To succeed you will have some of the following skills and experience:

- Proven work experience as a news and features writer or reporter.
- Demonstrable portfolio of published articles, including clear evidence of finding and writing emotional, compelling real-life stories
- Comfortable organising and conducting interviews with members of the public.
- Some understanding of health research or experience writing health-related features.
- Dextrous across a range of reporting and writing styles, including factual news and feature interviews.
- Computer proficiency (MS Office, digital editing, web search and databases).
- Excellent writing skills in English.
- Ability to follow strict deadlines and fact-check information.
- Good observation skills.
- Understanding of journalistic and publishing law.
- Broad knowledge of headline best practice.
- Degree in journalism, communications or relevant field.
- The ability to travel to different locations across the UK (approximately 1 day per week).

**Benefits**
- £28,000 - £30,000 per annum basic salary.
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
- Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities.
- A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London - we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

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