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About the Role
The Guardian is seeking an editor for its Animals Farmed series to edit and commission content on animal and fish welfare and industrial farming globally, highlighting connections to human health and food security. This role involves driving coverage, planning stories, supporting reporters, and collaborating with various editorial teams.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the editor of foundations and philanthropic projects, drive coverage across the issue of animal farming and plan bold, agenda-setting stories for print and web as well as eye-catching visual presentations
- Support and give guidance to Guardian reporters assigned to the project and a network of freelancers around the world.
- Liaise on commissioning and story development with UK national and international desks and relevant editorial teams in the US, Australia and elsewhere
- React confidently to any breaking stories, collaborating with the relevant newsdesks
- Plan coverage for key diary events
- Contribute ideas to daily and weekly meetings
- Ensure the best presentation and promotion of stories on and off the Guardian’s platform
- Liaise with design, production, visuals and multimedia desks
- Commission and edit news content
- Deal with legal issues on a day to day basis
- Collaborate with indigenous journalism collectives around the world
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience of working as a journalist, ideally on a newspaper, news website or magazine with an international outlook
- Excellent news judgment, high motivation and proactive attitude
- A keen interest in, and preferably knowledge of, industrial farming, animal health and welfare and its impact on human well-being and diet
- Commitment to creating world-class journalism
- Experienced in effectively utilising social media and multimedia formats
- Media law knowledge
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role
Skills
- Social media
- Multimedia formats
Location
- London
Work Type
- Part-time
- Hybrid
- Fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- £60,748 (FTE)
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave (prorated for part-time roles) plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of leave
- Generous pension scheme (5% employee contribution, 8-12% employer contribution)
- 2 volunteering days annually
- Option of payroll giving
- Season ticket loans
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Eye tests
- Optional dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy
- Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- The Guardian is a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
- Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
- We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
- It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.