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About the Role
The Guardian is launching new schemes to support journalists in developing future-facing digital and visual skills. This role will lead this initiative, overseeing operational elements of the digital journalist scheme which incorporates an apprenticeship program. You will champion editorial excellence, drive participant growth, and align training with desk requirements, while directly supporting participants through onboarding, reviews, and community-building.
Responsibilities
- Support the deputy training editor, apprenticeships with the day-to-day delivery of the new Guardian digital journalist scheme.
- Lead on the process of deploying digital journalists onto editorial desks.
- Build strong relationships with desk editors to allow for constructive feedback on current and future skills needs.
- Contribute to external and internal training plans to build a robust program that supports editorial needs.
- Deliver training workshops in areas of editorial specialism if required.
- Ensure the program of external and internal training is delivered to time and the training timetable dovetails with operational needs.
- Maintain program plans, calendars, trackers, and key documentation.
- Coordinate program activities, deadlines, and key milestones including ongoing progress reviews.
- Identify operational issues and escalate them where appropriate.
- Help to create a strong sense of community and connection across each cohort.
- Support participants to meet their potential and the Guardian’s high journalistic standards.
- Work with a digital journalist administrative team who will manage central rotas and flexible cover processes.
Requirements
- Experience delivering or coordinating training, with demonstrable experience supporting early-career talent, trainees, or formal apprenticeship schemes.
- Understanding of and commitment to the highest editorial standards.
- Passion for training and how it can transform an organisation.
- Excellent understanding of the skills journalists need now and curiosity about the future of journalism.
- Aptitudes and knowledge Guardian teams will need to build.
- Experience designing or delivering training, ideally in an editorial environment.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to deliver projects to deadline.
- Experience in leading a small team or a commitment to building these skills.
- First-rate communication skills and the ability to make connections with people across an organisation.
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role.
Skills
- Digital skills
- Visual skills
- Editorial excellence
- Training delivery
- Project management
- Communication
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Two-year fixed-term contract
- Internal staff secondment
Experience Level
- Early-career talent support
- Trainee support
- Apprenticeship scheme coordination
- Leadership experience (or commitment to build)
Education Level
- Apprenticeship program
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave per year plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual 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
- Supportive policies for IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality
- Access to employee benefits platform for tailored health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- A diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
- Comprised of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
- Committed to making a difference and representing a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- Offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth, and fostering an inclusive culture.
- The first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- Actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.