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About the Role

We are seeking a site editor, international desk to edit key Guardian homepages and commission, edit, and produce international stories as part of the International team in Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Edit the Guardian home pages - including UK, US and Europe sites - updating and refreshing as required to keep them relevant to their target audiences
• Work with the International news team to help ensure key international stories are commissioned, edited, subbed and launched while UK and US teams are offline
• Support the Guardian UK night editor and night production editors (online) in London when they are present
• Live blog and write news stories when necessary
• Work with the UK newsletters team on production of the First Edition newsletter if required
• Cover news in the Asia-Pacific region
• Act as weekend International duty editor on rotation
• Be available to the New York and West Coast offices as well as North America correspondents to handle late-breaking US stories, updates and edits to US stories and the home page, as directed by the International editor in Sydney
• Monitor UK morning news sources and adjust the site to the UK news agenda
• Brief and hand over to the Guardian digital editors and international and national desks in London at the end of the shift
• Monitor the news wires, other websites/TV channels for international and UK news stories
• Commission foreign correspondents when a story breaks on their patch, and serve as a contact point for them during UK out-of-office hours as directed by the International news editor in Sydney
• Come up with ideas for stories and devise innovative and interesting ways of telling them
• Work closely with the Guardian Australia team to ensure key stories are covered and adapt to changing news priorities
• Ensure all potential legal issues resolved prior to publishing
• Liaise with audience team to optimise timing, keywords, page furniture and story placement to maximise traffic

Requirements

• Significant journalistic experience, with an excellent grasp of international news. Experience in UK and US news preferable
• Experience of working in a fast changing and high-pressure environment, preferably on a news website
• Understanding of the unique time pressures involved in digital journalism
• Thorough understanding of Guardian values
• Excellent understanding of media law

Skills

• A passion for independent journalism and an understanding of our editorial code and values
• Editing, writing, blogging and production skills
• The ability to deliver feedback to correspondents and to accept feedback from senior editors
• Ability to plan for news events and projects
• Good commissioning skills
• Good news judgement
• Speed and accuracy
• Efficient, decisive and persuasive
• Diplomatic team player
• Confident and assertive
• Enthusiastic and proactive
• Flexible and adaptable

Location

• Sydney
• Melbourne

Work Type

• Full-time
• 15-month fixed term
• Hybrid working

Benefits

• Employee assistance program (EAP) to support employee wellbeing
• Paid volunteer leave
• Dedicated diversity and inclusion employee groups, action plans (including our Reconciliation Action Plan) and cultural competency training
• Guardian digital subscription

About the Company

• Guardian Australia is part of Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com.
• As a leading global media organisation, we are renowned for our pioneering independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.
• We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen).
• We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do, bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought.
• We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.

Equal Opportunity

• GNM Australia Limited (Guardian Australia) is proud to be a fair and ethical employer.
• We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen).
• We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do, bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought.
• We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.