Full-time News Researcher

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Press Data Ltd Full time

**NEWS RESEARCHER**

**PERSON SPECIFICATION AND JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Hours**
- Friday - 06:00 - 14:30
- Saturday - 07:30 - 16:00
- Sunday - 07:30 - 16:00
- Monday - 06:00 - 14:30

Total working hours are 32 hours per week.

**Salary** £21,500 - 23,500 per annum. Starting salary from £20,000 for first six months training based upon experience.

**Overview**

Our Content and Editorial teams are responsible for monitoring press, broadcast and online content for an extensive list of clients. News Researchers play a critical role in providing our media monitoring service with responsibility for viewing, assessing, and delivering news items to meet our clients’ complex requirements.

The team provide written summaries of all news content, including print and online articles, broadcast programmes and verbatim transcripts of broadcast items for a range of clients. It is essential that all summaries and transcripts are accurate and delivered to meet tight deadlines.

In addition, team members are required to handle some content delivery to clients, ensuring the highest standards of quality control.

There are a range of shifts available with flexibility dependent upon role. Press Data offers the option for News researchers to work a hybrid in-office and working from home rota. During the initial training period, all work is office based.

**Person Specification**

Press Data is looking for an ambitious individual, who is highly organised and motivated, with a keen interest in news media and current affairs.

Press Data requires all members of our team to develop a versatile range of skills in relation to a daily agenda where quality and consistency of service to our clients is of prime importance.

The individual we are seeking will work as part of a small, friendly and efficient team, where respect and consideration are key values; they pride themselves on great team work, and all team members enjoy bringing positive energy to their work and to the company.

Therefore, we are looking for a highly organised and efficient individual, who has an understanding of the media and communications industries, and is comfortable working in an environment involving strict deadlines. This person will be able to work effectively and efficiently with company resources and will use their excellent professional judgment in a variety of situations for a wide range of clients.

A News Researcher is expected to progress to Senior News Researcher and Production Editor within two years.

The individual must share the values of the company and be able to communicate this positively to all clients and colleagues.

The person we are looking for must:

- Have excellent, proven communication skills, able to deal with people at different levels both internally and externally;
- Have knowledge of IT Applications, including MS Word, and MS PowerPoint;
- Be able to form co-operative working relationships and display time management skills in relation to personal workloads and deadlines;
- Have proven organisational ability and the capacity to work accurately to deadlines;
- Be able to work diligently alone if necessary and to respond to a wide variety of situations as they arise;
- Have experience of working within a busy production office or environment;
- Have excellent literacy skills with high levels of attention to detail;
- Be able to engage confidently with experienced communications professionals;
- Understand completely the need for excellent customer service at all times;
- Understand the need for complete confidentiality in some aspects of the role;
- Behave in a professional manner with colleagues and clients, leading by example in all tasks;
- Communicate the company ethos and demonstrate company values.

Overall, we are looking for a highly organised, confident communicator, with a strong desire to work in media intelligence, who would relish the challenge of ensuring that their contribution adds to the success of the company.

**Duties and responsibilities**
- Monitoring of press, online and broadcast sources accurately to agreed time targets
- Accurate selection of items according to individual client requirements
- Handling client delivery and quality control responsibilities, delivering articles to agreed deadlines
- Writing and sending accurate, concise summaries to meet tight deadlines
- Writing verbatim transcripts of broadcast items as selected by clients
- Maintaining and updating knowledge of client requirements, the media environment and working procedures
- Keeping work environment clean, tidy and safe
- Any other reasonable tasks as assigned by management

**Skills required**
- Excellent knowledge of UK current affairs
- Ability to interpret and evaluate news articles accurately and at speed
- Fast, accurate typing and good all-round IT skills
- Previous writing/journalistic experience
- Good concentration levels within busy working environment
- Ability to work and communicate well within a team structure - both v

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