Content Editor (Australia-based)
The Telegraph, Australia

Role purpose and overview

As an Australia-based Content Producer, your role will cover digital content production across various desks and homepage production, with some responsibility for social media for The Telegraph overnight, UK time.

You’ll liaise closely with our US-based Overnight Editor but you should be comfortable making editing decisions independently.

This is a busy, varied role where the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively is key.

The role will work day shifts in Australian time-zones to accommodate the desired coverage (usually 10.30pm to 6.30am, 11pm to 7am or 12am to 8am UK time) and will include weekend shifts on a rota basis.

Please note: the role is officially employed by PA Media in Australia but day-to-day responsibility and tasks are assigned by The Telegraph.

Key responsibilities

• Working directly with Overnight Editor to produce and publish digital content to a high standard, rich in pictures, videos and graphics, with the best headlines. Making sure anything published meets UK legal and IPSO standards.
• Ensuring that all major stories across News, Foreign, Business and Sport are covered and updated during the shift. Monitoring news wires, other websites, overnight newspapers, social media and search trends.
• Sending out app notifications and Breaking News emails where appropriate.
• Planning and commissioning content to give the morning team a rolling start, such as setting up a live blog for a morning event in advance.
• Making sure the website and app homepages are maintained to a high standard overnight and freshened up for the morning UK audience.
• Promoting stories published overnight on social media.
• Being ready and willing to pick up any other tasks that need doing during UK overnight hours, including coverage of major world events.
• Monitoring analytics to understand what is performing well and what could be improved.
• Receiving and sending handovers to various London desks and maintaining good communication to ensure the Telegraph's audience is serviced 24/7.
• Compiling the final overnight memo to send to London at 6am.

Key skills

• Able to work quickly and calmly, managing many responsibilities during a shift. A good decision maker.
• Immaculate attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively across the world.
• Experience of working for a major digital news publisher.
• Excellent news and picture judgement.
• Experience with social media and SEO is preferred.
• An understanding of analytics tools would be beneficial.
• Understanding of the Telegraph audience and subscription model is also desirable.

Our commitment to inclusion

We want you to feel you belong here and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

We have a number of internal networks that are totally inclusive and open for anyone to join. These include internal inclusion networks covering employees from ethnic minority backgrounds, working families, LGBTQ+, disabilities and long-term conditions, gender, wellbeing, and women in tech.

Your wellbeing is paramount, so we have trained over 100 Mental Health First Aiders in the last two years to help support our employees. We’ve also signed the Tech Talent Charter, and are committed to driving greater inclusion and diversity in tech.

The Telegraph’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, and disability. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

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