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About the Role

Guardian Australia is seeking a graphics editor to lead the creation and delivery of reactive visual journalism. This role involves commissioning, producing, and editing graphics for breaking news, data-driven reporting, and explanatory journalism, ensuring they are accurate, engaging, and visually compelling. The position collaborates with global teams to ensure high-quality visual coverage and contributes to shaping workflows and standards.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the news cycle and anticipate reactive news graphics that add value to international and Australian breaking news stories.
• Collaborate with Australia editors, the Sydney international desk, and the global graphics team to plan medium-turnaround visual stories.
• Source graphics and integrate them with written news or analysis, balancing breaking news demands.
• Act as part of a global, 24/7 graphics team, owning major breaking and developing globally significant stories during Australia hours.
• Provide clear handovers to colleagues in other locations to support continuous coverage.
• Source reliable and trustworthy data from reputable sources.
• Source, clean, and analyze data, obtaining meaningful satellite imagery and other materials for graphics creation.
• Interpret material from scientific publications and other sources for explainer diagrams, annotated images, and visual storytelling.
• Translate newsroom requests into well-sourced and visually striking graphics, ensuring accuracy and visual excellence.
• Produce and edit a range of graphics, from simple charts to complex data visualization and mapping, using various software.
• Pitch graphics to the newsroom, manage the Australian graphics team, prioritize stories by impact and importance, and handle team communications with local and international stakeholders.
• Ensure graphics styles and principles are upheld, maintaining rigorous standards of journalistic integrity and usability.
• Maintain a mobile-first mindset for visual journalism production.
• Engage in elevating the team’s skill set and evolving workflows.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of visual journalism with a portfolio demonstrating the ability to create effective data-driven graphics for digital platforms.
• Experience with the tools, techniques, and workflows required for visual journalism.
• Significant experience (7-8+ years) working at pace for a busy news organization, ideally in a breaking news environment.
• Deep knowledge of the use and misuse of graphics.
• Ability to provide feedback to senior stakeholders and build relationships within a newsroom.
• Extensive knowledge of geography and cartographic best practices.
• Good understanding of media law.
• Strong understanding of data sourcing, cleaning, and analysis.
• Knowledge of how to find trustworthy and reputable data sets, photos, and other information for visual assignments.
• Knowledge of key accessibility checks and challenges of designing inclusive graphics.
• Good understanding of cartography, including appropriate projection use and choropleth classifications.
• Discernment and strong judgment regarding the use of OSINT.
• Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role.
• Ability to apply for this position by applying online and uploading a résumé (maximum three pages) plus covering letter outlining motivation and suitability.

Skills

• Adobe Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Excel/Google Sheets
• QGIS or equivalents for working with geodata
• Writing to-the-point headlines
• Writing incisive chart annotations
• Typography
• Time management
• Interpersonal skills
• Concise feedback delivery
• Communication
• Flexibility
• Creative problem-solving
• Newsroom and cross-team communication
• Collaboration
• Openness
• Inclusivity
• Experimentation with new formats
• Understanding audience needs and behavior across platforms
• Data-informed decision-making using analytics
• Learning new skills
• Adaptability
• Skill sharing
• Innovation
• Working on own initiative
• Adapting to changing news priorities
• Calmness under pressure
• Openness to feedback and correction

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• 7-8+ years

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.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• We actively encourage applications from candidates who are traditionally underrepresented in the media.
• 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.