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About the Role
This is an internal staff secondment for up to 9 months to cover a period of parental leave. The role involves generating news stories and features covering Scotland across digital, multimedia, and print platforms for the National news desk.
Responsibilities
- Produce content (text, multimedia etc) for all Guardian platforms
- Work as part of the news team to break exclusive stories and write features, interviews, and analysis, focusing primarily on stories affecting Scotland
- Keep up to date with issues across Scotland and work with national editors to identify and develop the best possible content
- Keep editors informed of stories in development
- Help develop innovative digital storytelling
- Develop and maintain key contacts and, through them, develop exclusive and original material
- Collaborate on projects with other correspondents, specialists and departments
- Develop and maintain useful contacts across politics, culture, racial justice, health, technology, business, the arts, education, social affairs and home affairs
Requirements
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of Scottish politics and the wider issues affecting Scotland
- Strong track record of breaking exclusive stories and feature writing
- Demonstrable reporting experience, across digital and print, preferably on a national newspaper, website or magazine
- Excellent contacts
- Preferably NCTJ trained
- Scottish and UK media law knowledge
- Full UK driving licence (desirable)
- Ideally you will have a demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role
Location
- Scotland
Work Type
- Internal staff secondment
- Full-time
Education Level
- NCTJ trained (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- Minimum of £41,223
About the Company
- We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.