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About the Role
Develop and implement strategies to protect Guardian journalists from physical and online harm, and provide wellbeing support for work-related matters. Act as the central lead on duty of care for journalists, designing and overseeing practical strategies to protect editorial staff in an evolving and increasingly hostile climate. This role primarily supports UK editorial operations while collaborating globally.
Responsibilities
- Review and formalize newsroom-wide risk assessment protocols, ensuring health and safety standards for all reporting assignments, especially in high-risk environments.
- Assess wellbeing and psychological challenges faced by journalists, recommend support strategies, and lead on their implementation.
- Serve as a central point for reporting online abuse and physical safety concerns, managing cases and ensuring timely support.
- Coordinate with security, information security, legal teams, and managing editors as needed.
- Design and implement comprehensive training programs for journalists and managers, including hostile environment training.
- Develop and deliver training on digital safety, including account security and responses to published journalism.
- Collaborate with commercial partners, social media companies, and tech platforms to address incidents and push for systemic improvements.
- Understand the frequency and type of abuse staff face to inform safety precautions and training.
Requirements
- Ability to develop and deliver mental health and wellbeing frameworks and strategies for journalists, ideally within a newsroom.
- Familiarity with digital threats such as doxing, hacking, and platform-specific privacy settings.
- Ability to develop and deliver safety strategies and training for journalists and managers.
- Good knowledge of, or demonstrable interest in, online threats, digital security, and relevant policies.
- Strong knowledge of physical safety protocols, including risk assessments and health and safety regulations relevant to reporting.
- Understanding of the UK and global political landscape and its potential impact on staff safety.
- Experience of dealing with social media platforms and lobbying them to take action on online abuse.
- Ability to respond calmly and systematically to high-severity threats or coordinated attacks.
- Experience in crisis management is a benefit.
- Extensive experience working in a fast-paced digital environment with a deep understanding of a newsroom and journalist work environments.
- Experience collaborating with the media industry, platforms, government, academics, and training providers.
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role.
Skills
- Journalism wellbeing and safety
- Risk assessment
- Health and safety standards
- Psychological support
- Online abuse reporting
- Digital safety training
- Hostile environment training
- Crisis management
- Collaboration
Location
- King's Cross, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- 5-day-week
Experience Level
- Extensive experience of working in a fast-paced digital environment
- Experience of working collaboratively with the media industry, platforms, government, academics and training providers
Salary/Compensations
- Starts from £76,728
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave per year plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase additional annual leave days
- 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
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support
- Access to employee benefits platform for tailored health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff restaurant with canal views
About the Company
- The Guardian is committed to fearless, independent reporting and safeguarding journalists.
- We are the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
- We champion diversity of thought and foster an inclusive workplace through employee forums.
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 ensure you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process.
- We can make changes to help your application, including providing documents in accessible formats or personalizing the process.