Junior Reporter

**Your mission**:
Are you a scoop-hungry reporter keen to make your mark on the national stage? Do you have the desire to beat the national newspapers to the exclusives on some of the hottest topics around?

If so Faversham House are recruiting a junior reporter to join Utility Week, the UK’s only trade title for energy and water companies. We’re looking for someone to become an integral part of Utility Week’s news team, helping to shape our award-winning news and analysis output and playing a part in setting the agenda for the sector. You should be gregarious and keen to make new contacts and gain the confidence of industry figures.
- Full time: 35 hours Monday to Friday, Hybrid working
- Office: East Grinstead - walking distance to the station, onsite parking
- Benefits: Holiday, Health and Wellbeing scheme, EAP, Flexible working policy, Company events, Cyce2work schemes. Electric car scheme, Company pension, and Private Medical Insurance (After qualifying period)

**Your profile**:
**Person specification**
- NCTJ (or equivalent journalism qualification) and some newswriting experience
- Excellent writing skills and strong journalistic instincts, with a proven ability to identify the angle to a story
- Working understanding of media law (defamation, contempt, copyright, etc)
- Shorthand is desirable but not essential
- Strong interpersonal skills, including good telephone manner and the confidence to network with senior figures in the utilities sector
- A willingness to learn and a passion to break news stories

**Why us?**:
**About Faversham House**

Faversham House is a multi-award winning, progressive, and independent media company with 64 staff based in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Our modern head office is located less than an hour from London, reflecting a buzzing, growing and dynamic business against the backdrop of inspiring surroundings. The offices have undergone a major refurbishment in the last year to reflect a modern working environment focussed on collaboration and able to cope with hybrid working. What’s more, we have one of the most collaborative working environments within the industry.

We have a hybrid working model including both home and office working, dependent on team requirements, job role and responsibilities. Our product offering includes digital and in person paid and free conferences, awards, exhibitions and bespoke digital and in person events in addition to our publishing activities. We are increasingly focused on audience generated revenues, powerful data analytics and providing our industries with the tools they need to succeed.

We are trusted by thousands of B2B professionals to deliver high-quality insight for better business decision making through our diverse portfolio of digital information and insight, and digital and in person exhibitions, conferences, and events. We operate in two key markets creating powerful connections and providing persuasive marketing solutions:

- Utilities (water, gas and electricity)
- Sustainability (businesses and organisations who want to be resource efficient and socially and environmentally responsible)

**Our purpose and values**
We are a purpose driven business and we aim to live our purpose and values in all we do.

Our purpose is to spark ideas and actions. Our values are:

- Ambitious: Be brave and achieve great things
- Creative: Think differently and try something new
- Caring: Love what you do and do what’s right

We are an equal opportunities employer who value people as individuals with diverse
opinions, cultures, lifestyles and circumstances. We are committed to equality and fairness of opportunity and to providing a service and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. The goal is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

**About us**:
**Faversham House is a progressive, independent media group. Some even say small, but mighty.**: