Editorial Commissioning Manager

3 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Telegraph Media Group Full time
About The Role

The Telegraph Media Group is seeking a highly skilled Commissioning Editor to join its award-winning team. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced journalist to exercise their existing skills and take on large-scale projects across multiple platforms.

The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying subjects and angles that lend themselves to compelling long-form journalism, which will work brilliantly both in print and online. They will have the ability to commission with clarity, edit to make copy flow and fit, and work with the different editorial departments on projects and present ideas to the broader features team.

The ideal candidate will think visually and understand all the platforms on which content is published and promoted when deciding which subjects engage our intelligent and affluent audience. They will fit into a small, collaborative team focused on long-form features, utilizing both in-house writers and a variety of freelance contributors.

Key Responsibilities

  • Commission and edit long-form features, interviews, and news features, with a special interest in and experience of fixing interviews across all subject areas.
  • Develop strong contacts in the literary, entertainment, arts categories, and a willingness to build on these and across wider sectors of interest.
  • Bring on board freelance contacts and build relationships with good freelance writers.
  • Oversee regular magazine features as and when required.
  • Come up with a stream of fresh new ideas for The Telegraph Magazine's intelligent and affluent demographic.

Requirements

  • Experience in commissioning and editing long-form content.
  • Digital knowledge and the ability to think in a 360-degree way.
  • The ability to re-work copy quickly and under pressure.
  • The ability to commission and edit long-form copy that resonates with The Telegraph demographic.
  • The ability to work with both seasoned writers and to nurture upcoming writers and edit features with intelligence and sensitivity.
  • Good knowledge of media law.
  • Be a gifted communicator who creates and nurtures contacts to bring exclusives to The Telegraph.
  • Have a voracious appetite for reading widely across print, digital, social media to identify compelling stories from around the world, with a special interest in people and a tireless energy for fixing interviews with them.

Benefits

The Telegraph Media Group offers a range of benefits to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance. These include dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave, as well as life assurance and season ticket loans.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process, please let us know.

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