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About the Role
The Deputy Digital Editor will support digital editors with day-to-day oversight of all GNM’s digital content, ensuring the digital presence is dynamic, engaging, and globally responsive. This role involves supporting the head of digital (live) in overseeing content flow across multiple platforms, ensuring speed, accuracy, and creativity in breaking stories and live coverage. The position also includes deputizing for the head of digital (live) and managing the team of homepage editors in their absence.
Responsibilities
- Assist with running the day's digital output, working closely with desk editors and the digital editing team to respond in smart, imaginative ways to stories throughout the day.
- Lead the digital desk on Saturdays to ensure our weekend online offering is well planned and promoted, as well as responding to live news as it happens.
- Manage the UK, Europe, and International homepages on a day-to-day basis.
- Send breaking news alerts and oversee live blogs.
- Work with design, visuals, video, community and audience teams to ensure the best possible expression of the Guardian’s digital output.
- Work with planning teams and different desks to schedule content and to ensure meticulous preparation for live events.
- Attend planning and ideas meetings to ensure the Guardian’s digital needs are reflected in commissioning decisions.
- Attend meetings and work with colleagues in digital development to agree and shape plans to develop the Guardian’s digital storytelling.
- Understand targets and metrics and build them into balanced editing judgments.
Requirements
- Significant experience of a live newsroom, ideally at a national or international news organisation.
- Strong understanding of content management systems (CMS), digital publishing, and analytics tools (e.g. Ophan).
- Experience of editing homepages and articles.
- Understanding and knowledge of analytics, search and other measurements of digital audience and targets.
- Strong record of creativity and innovation in digital journalism.
- Proven track record of using social media channels to engage diverse audiences, adapt stories for platform-specific formats, and drive digital reach.
- Clear vision of the purpose and aims of the Guardian.
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role.
Skills
- Content management systems (CMS)
- Digital publishing
- Analytics tools (e.g. Ophan)
- Editing homepages
- Editing articles
- Analytics
- Search
- Digital audience measurement
- Digital journalism creativity
- Digital journalism innovation
- Social media channel engagement
- Platform-specific content adaptation
- Driving digital reach
Location
- London
Work Type
- 9-month fixed-term contract or staff secondment
- 9-day fortnight working pattern (including Saturdays)
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £63,712
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave per year pro rata (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
- Generous pension scheme: 5% employee contribution with 8-12% employer contribution.
- Two 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 support for health and wellbeing.
- 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.
- The team consists of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
- The company is committed to making a difference and represents a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- The Guardian offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
- The Guardian has achieved 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.
- We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought.
- 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.