Senior Sub Editor
About the role:
Our client, a leading media company has a full-time opportunity for an experienced, talented and multi-skilled layout and digital sub-editor to work across both its well-established and long-running titles.
Key Responsibilties:
- To sub and publish content across their digital and print publications, ensuring that quality meets the highest levels of accuracy and house style.
- To edit and publish web stories, reviews, features and columns, as well as lay out magazine and newspaper pages using InDesign, with both flair and attention to detail, and to agreed deadlines.
- Contribute to editorial production, following quality, house style and speed of delivery requirements
- Supervise relevant production team members when required, as above
- Support the production manager as required
- Assume responsibility for tasks requiring greater input on design/layout
- Create and publish eye-catching social media posts
- Complete allocated pages and online content to agreed daily deadlines
Skills required for the role:
- First-class copy-subbing and layout skills
- Thorough working knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop
- Experience of using web publishing platforms, eg Wordpress
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Social media skills - crafting eye-catching posts and tweets
- Proven experience of meeting production deadlines
- Knowledge of SEO (desirable)
- Journalism qualification including media law (desirable)
- Illustrator skills would be an advantage (desirable)
The ideal candidate:
- 5 years' experience within sub-editing
- Print and digital content experience
- Organised, cooperative and demonstrates excellent attention to detail
- Able to positively contribute to a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Ability to balance competing priorities
- Ability to work calmly under pressure
- Able to work independently and also as part of a team
- Willingness to participate in continual learning
- Intuitive to business needs