Urgent Audience Editor

3 weeks ago


Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland News Corp UK & Ireland Limited Full time
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

We 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.

We 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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