Audience & Content Editor – Newsquest (Swindon)
An opportunity has arisen to lead the team at one of the best-performing news titles in the Newsquest stable.
The Swindon Advertiser has won Newsbrand of the Year in recent years and is one of the most historic local news titles in the country, read by tens of thousands of loyal readers every day both online and in print.
We are now looking for an Audience and Content Editor to lead its news cycle and push our content to the next level.
We’re looking for a digital dynamo to drive our audience size through the mentoring and motivating of our team of reporters and by having a clear idea of what content will drive this interest.
The role includes helping with all aspects of digital, from story ideas and social media management to understanding SEO and editing submitted content.
You will be working alongside another audience and content editor managing our other Wiltshire titles, the Wiltshire Times and the Gazette and Herald with a team of ten reporters.
This role would suit someone with existing news desking experience seeking a bigger challenge or an accomplished senior reporter looking for the next step up.
Characteristics
- A digital native, who knows what readers want and when
- Full of digital ideas and confident in how to make them sing online
- Happy mentoring and developing reporters
- Confident with analytics and how to use them to maximise digital traffic
- An SEO supremo
- A master of social and how best to use it
- Confident in dealing with all aspects of a modern-day newsroom, from a trainee digital reporter to a newspaper production hub senior.
Benefits
Newsquest Media Group is one of the UK’s largest newspaper and website publishers. As well as a competitive salary, we also offer generous benefits including:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Contributory Pension
- Perks & Discounts at various retail outlets
- Opportunities for team building and training days
- 25 days paid holiday + statutory bank holidays + your birthday day off.
- Structured career progression, ongoing training, and personal performance reviews
- Discount Vouchers
- Discounted Gym membership
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Mental Health Support via Lifeworks
- Eye test vouchers plus £50 towards new glasses.
- Annual Volunteer Charity Day
Newsquest Media Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all community sections regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Our recruitment process will consist of various stages and activities, as part of our commitment to fairness to all applicants, we will consider any adjustments that could help you.
If you are interested please send a CV and a summary of your interest and capability to do the role by Monday, September 2.
You can also get in touch with the Group Editor for an informal chat about the position by emailing daniel.chipperfield@newsquest.co.uk
