Social Media and Platforms Editor

**The **social media and platforms editor** **is a senior role within the digital team. As well as heading up the social media and platforms team, the role is responsible for working with senior editors in the newsroom to curate and commission stories, pictures and video content for our social media and third-party platforms including Apple News + and Google Showcase.

**Responsibilities**
- Writing and editing copy as well as adapting pictures and multimedia for social media platforms
- Managing and developing the social media and platforms team
- Editing and selecting content to appear on Apple News + and Google Showcase
- Creating social media activity that engages its intended audience, inline with Times news values
- Expertise in creative storytelling: comfortable using a variety of techniques, from GIFs to interactives, polls to live Q&As
- Ability to pull editorial insights from data, understanding various platform-specific metrics to inform decisions
- Champion the use of social media in the newsroom through training
- This role requires regular working in our newsroom in London

**Skills and experience**:

- Experienced journalist with strong news judgment and people management skills
- Demonstrable experience working on social media and third-party platforms
- Experience managing a team
- Highly organised, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to solve problems and negotiate
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Flexible and committed, and able to generate ideas about how to improve our content
- A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues

**About the digital team**

The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis in the UK and the world.

We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

This role will join our cross-title digital strategy team. The team is charged with finding and telling stories on our digital platforms in the most appropriate formats and empowering the newsroom to present stories in new and innovative ways.

**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.