Assistant News Picture Editor

The Times_ and _The Sunday Times_ are seeking an assistant editor for the news pictures department.

The job requires you to work with a team of picture editors and researchers, who search more than 50,000 images a day and investigate news stories to source exclusive pictures.

**Responsibilities**
- Work as part of the backbench team of senior editors to produce The Times and The Sunday Times on multiple platforms
- Presenting at news conference, highlighting exclusive pictures and original picture-led stories
- Investigating news stories to source exclusive pictures, as well as producing stand-alone picture packages
- Managing relationships with photographers, agencies and other external contacts to source or commission original, distinctive images
- Giving story leads and ideas to the news desk
- Able to work across all picture research shifts, including home news, wires, digital, foreign and business and able to work flexibly across platforms
- Supporting the news pictures editor, section editors and designers to work in the most effective and efficient way possible
- Able to work under pressure on edition, as well as contribute to longer-term projects
- Proactively researching suitable content ideas and putting together strong packages that engage editors at morning and afternoon news conference and through the day
- Having a clear understanding of the editorial and visual objectives of The Times and The Sunday Times news pages and understanding how pictures contribute to that
- Building positive relationships with editors and their departments
- This job requires regular working in the newsroom

**Skills and experience**
- A qualification or strong experience in journalism or photography
- Experience working in the media, especially on a news desk or picture agency
- Experience establishing strong working relationships and building credibility with senior managers
- A proven track record of influencing editorial colleagues, leading thinking and generating ideas
- Creative problem-solving
- Highly organised and able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
- A collaborative, flexible working style with experience working in partnership with design and production teams
- Strong understanding of usage rights, permissions and copyright

**Life at News**: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion **diversity and inclusion**, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship, Women’s Steering Group and Disability network.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the **Health and **Wellbeing** of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

- A generous **pension **scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- 30 days **holiday **and up to 4 **volunteering **days per year;
- **Maternity **leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity **leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of **training **available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any **reasonable adjustments** during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.