Audience Editor

Job Description
Your team:
The Irish Sun is one of the biggest news brands in Ireland - and still growing
- with a talented, energetic team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family values.
Audience Engagement Editor:
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Audience Editor to join the dynamic editorial team at
thesun.ie
, one of Ireland's biggest websites.
Your role:
You will be responsible for helping us grow and engage our readership in innovative ways, leading the audience team to work closely with reporters, editors, and senior management to ensure that our journalism is reaching the widest possible audience and having the greatest impact.
Day to day you will:
Oversee a comprehensive audience strategy, identifying key trends, opportunities and areas for content improvement
Lead on SEO and other digital best practices to maximise the reach and visibility of our content
Lead and manage audience and social media team - managing workflows, setting clear objectives, providing regular feedback
Assist in managing social media accounts
Assist in development and execution of premium subscription content
Have an instinct for how to 'sell' a digital story to get maximum impact on the Irish Sun's platforms and social media - guiding journalists on best practices for optimising content for search engines and social media including writing and refining headlines and meta descriptions
Monitor analytics and news feeds to ensure the best content is being surfaced and effectively recirculate readers within The Irish Sun and keep them absorbed with our content
Help execute and develop our push notification strategy
Help oversee growth in our video output making sure it's a key feature of the content we create
Liaise with UK Audience team on strategy and engagement
Stay up to date with emerging digital platforms
What we are looking for from you:
Experience in a fast-paced newsroom
Data-driven with strong analytical skills
Expert level SEO expertise, especially on-page, with a general interest in SEO and audience trends.
Good knowledge of technical SEO principles
Effective project management and experience working with many stakeholders (Editorial/Commercial) to deliver strategy
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Can confidently translate and crystalise key information and share with wider teams
Great leadership skills, with an innate ability to teach and develop others
A passion for journalism and a keen understanding of the Irish media landscape
Dynamic and entrepreneurial work style.
To apply you must have the right to work in Ireland.
Life at News:
At News UK & Ireland our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.
Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways.
We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.
Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion
diversity and inclusion
, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued.
We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.
We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK and Ireland supporting the
Health and Wellbeing
of our staff.
Some of what we offer includes:
A generous
pension
scheme with employer contributions of up to 8%
30 days
holiday
and up to 4
volunteering
days per year
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
Eligible for
private medical insurance
covering pre-existing conditions
'Bikes for Work'
scheme
W
e want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing.
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.
W
e want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing.
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.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500.
At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
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