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DE&I Community and Communications Coordinator - 12 Month FTC

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London

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DE&I at News UK

In 2020, News UK, which is home to brands including The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times, TalkTV, talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK and Times Radio, launched its first diversity strategy which is focused on on three key priorities:

• Attracting, developing and retaining young talent from a much broader pool

Driving gender and ethnic diversity in our wider leadership

Ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce

And over the past three years, we have launched 63 two-year-long apprenticeships, and we were the first media brand to partner with Kickstart, creating 52 paid internships for unemployed young people, many of whom went on to permanent employment at News UK. We have established partnerships with a range of diversity recruitment specialists and have developed leadership programmes for people from diverse backgrounds, as well as introducing diversity experts across our brands. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

The Team: News UK\'s Diversity team are passionate about driving change and supporting the business in its aim to create a pathway to a 50/50 gender split across the company\'s workforce, with a 20 per cent target of representation of ethnic minorities.Shelley Bishton, (https://www.news.co.uk/careers/spotlights/shelley-bishton/) Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has worked at News UK since 2018, starting her tenure as Head of Partnerships for the Times. She is a founding member of News UK\'s first employee-led network for black, asian and ethnic minority employees, the Cultural Diversity Network.Mark Hudson (https://www.news.co.uk/search/mark+hudson) , Head of Creative Diversity has worked at The Sun, on talkTV, across digital production and the commercial teams since he joined News in 2006 as an apprentice. He builds programmes to help diverse talent find their way to our business.

The role: The Diversity Community and Communications Coordinator is a new role within the Diversity team, reporting to the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to support and promote functions within the diversity team. The remit of this role is to support our Head of D,E&I to manage our partnerships with external community organisations and businesses, support our internal employee networks. The Coordinator will be responsible for the creative communications for DE&I at News UK. In addition, the role will provide administrative support to the Diversity team.

Day to day you will:

Project Coordination

• Coordinating new projects that develop within the team

Working with the Diversity team to deliver the plan for relevant diversity events (such as Black History Month, South Asian Heritage Month, and International Women\'s Day)

Community - Internal and External

• Supporting on News UK\'s DE&I partnerships (for example, Black Collective of Media and Sport, the Black Pound Report, UK Black Business Show, Genius Within, The Talent Tap, and the Business Disability Forum)

Working to onboard potential new partnerships and community organisations once identified which can support the DE&I team objectives

Supporting News UK\'s employee Networks. Working closely with the chairs on their network events and projects to help increase their membership and improve their visibility within the business and externally.

Communications

• Informing relevant stakeholders including; HR departments, Corporate affairs, DE&I team of DE&I initiatives.

Coordinating the creation of communication materials, including: the quarterly DE&I Newsletters; monthly awareness posters, and updating the DE&I website.

General Administrative Support

• Supporting the Diversity Team and Inclusion with general administrative tasks such as; managing and scheduling meeting, preparation and planning for specific meetings, development of decks, and dealing with new queries for the DE&I team.

Coordinating the execution of any legal contracts and supporting materials.

What we\'re looking for from you:

We are looking for someone who has fire in their belly for driving equity for all people. You are passionate about the media and believe the media should be representative of all peoples.

You do not necessarily have to be from a traditional diversity or HR background but experience within this space is preferred, whether this is professional or from other work/life experiences.

The ideal candidate would have experience of working in a fast paced environment with a high level of professionalism and expectation of delivery.

They also have had experience of planning and administering projects.

We are a nimble committed team who work incredibly hard and love what we do. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can build and grow with the team.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we will launch TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can\'t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion , we strive to maximize 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 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women\'s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a \'Bikes for Work\' scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 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.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

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