Story Editor

4 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Lime Pictures Full time

**Based in Liverpool, 12 month contract.**

**Competitive salary and benefits package**

Hollyoaks is an award-winning five-nights-a-week soap that entertains its teatime audience with a heady mix of romance, hard hitting, issue led storytelling and big block-buster plots. The show is becoming a firm fixture in primetime TV and we want to continue to push boundaries and keep our audience gripped.

We are in search of a talented Story Editor to work alongside our current Story Editor, assisting our Story Producer in leading the Story team. As Story Editor, you will be heavily involved in devising, writing and editing the storylines achieving the Executive Producers vision with guidance from the Story Producer. You will be a key member at story conference and commissioning meetings, ensuring that all material is interrogated and developed to the highest standard.

The role of Story Editor requires a high level of creativity, a keen eye for detail, strong communication skills and the ability to consistently offer creative ideas and solutions whilst working to structured deadlines. You will work closely with and inspire the story team, understanding and maintaining the Hollyoaks in-house style of writing and ensuring stories are confidently & dramatically structured through every draft. You will need to be confident in your ability to write A story arcs as and when required.

To be considered for this role you must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, you need to be confident at negotiating and have the ability to build effective working relationships, especially with the Script, Research and Production teams.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

- 26 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance of 4 x salary from day 1
- BUPA single cover after 12 months service
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- On-site canteen
- On-site nursery


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