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Junior Audience Editor - The Independent

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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The Role

The Independent is looking for a creative and driven digital audience specialist. The right candidate will be enthusiastic and have a keenness in understanding how to drive digital traffic and increase quality readership and engagement.

The successful candidate must have a passion for online publishing - and a passion for making stories and headlines accessible and engaging to readers.

We particularly want to hear from people who have fresh ideas about how to reach new audiences.

Flexibility and the ability to work weekends and evenings is crucial in this role.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

  • Identifying search priorities
  • Curating our social media feeds
  • Writing headlines
  • Spotting and commissioning stories
  • Pitching ideas and coming up with feature ideas based on trending topics.

The right person will also be a confident team player, able to influence journalists of all levels of experience.

Essential experience and skills

  • Strong attention to detail
  • The ability to understand and spot a wide range of news stories – from science, to politics and sport
  • The ability to write punchy, SEO-friendly headlines
  • The ability to investigate and identify stories and trending content
  • Strong familiarity with and fondness for social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube
  • Enthusiasm, flexibility and a love of the internet

Preferred experience and skills

  • Writing experience and proven experience with social media and editorial analytics
  • Experience with analytics
  • Experience of building audiences with social media and developing social media accounts
  • Familiarity with SEO best practice is an advantage

Please note, due to the high level of applications we will only be contacting candidates who have been shortlisted and progressed through to the next stage.

ESI Media is an innovative, award-winning media business. Voted Media Week’s Brand of the Year, our brands include the Evening Standard, The Independent. Our portfolio offers advertisers cross-platform quality content and a range of audiences.

Publishing
London
1,000 employees