Assistant Head of Features - 12 Month FTC

　　Location:

　　London

　　Department:

　　The Sun

　　Salary Details:

　　Not Specified

　　Advertising End Date:

　　04 Feb 2024

　　Job Description

　　The Team: The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Our exclusives set the news agenda and our campaigns have changed the lives of many.

　　Our Features team is the heartbeat of The Sun, helping shape the tone and personality of journalism’s most famous brand. It oversees everything from commentary to campaigns, real life to really funny, investigations to hard-hitting interviews and everything in between.

　　Your Role: You will work as part of a busy Features desk responsible for managing a team of staff writers and freelancers. You will commission and edit original and engaging features for all our platforms, with a particular focus on digital storytelling.

　　This is an ideas-driven role and the successful candidate will instinctively know what features will work well online, in print and across all The Sun's platforms - and have the skills to ensure they have the biggest impact.

　　Experience of both print and digital publishing is preferred. Digital experience is crucial.

　　Day to day you will:

　　Generate compelling and agenda-setting feature ideas and interviews suitable for digital audiences, with a focus on traffic-driving exclusives and original content

　　Present ideas in digital and print conferences to editors

　　Edit online stories to a high standard, liaising with legal, graphic designers and video to ensure we are producing multimedia content across all platforms

　　Commission content from writers and work to ensure good value on payments

　　Play a key role in suggesting and leading areas of future development, especially the digital presentation of content and content formats

　　Help to educate and enthuse the team about digital publishing

　　Develop ideas for print and lead the features print operation on a regular basis

　　Take responsibility for or assisting with campaigns as required

　　Liaise with the marketing and commercial teams on campaigns and content

　　Work with the audience team to ensure the optimum performance of content

　　Take on ad-hoc responsibilities as and when required to ensure the success of the team

　　What we’re looking for from you:

　　Experience of managing a team.

　　Strong digital experience across sections including news, showbiz, sport and lifestyle

　　Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard.

　　Pro-active and displays a willingness to take on any task.

　　Positive attitude and good team player.

　　Attention to detail, combined with an appreciation of the bigger picture

　　Adaptability – able to adapt style dependent on the story

　　Takes initiative in order to achieve desired results.

　　Self-starter, organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.

　　The ability to think on your feet and respond to events as they happen

　　Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

　　We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

　　Life at News

　　Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

　　To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

　　Benefits

　　Some of our benefits include:

　　Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

　　Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

　　Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

　　Discounted gym memberships , free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

　　‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

　　Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

　　Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

　　Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

　　A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

　　30 days holiday , plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

　　We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.