Job Description

Deputy Editor - Times Money Mentor

Location:

London

Department:

The Times

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

21 Aug 2023



Want to work for a rapidly growing personal finance,consumer and lifestyle website? Then join our editorial team atThe Times Money Mentor- a website dedicated to offering tips, guidance, products and services to better manage your everyday finances to ensure you don\'t have to compromise on the things you love.

The website, which is part ofThe TimesandThe Sunday Times, is now looking for a deputy editor to help bring our stories to life by combining excellent editing and writing skills with a passion for helping readers understand money matters.

You will have a great eye for detail and know how to write accurately and engagingly about complex money products such as credit cards, bank accounts, pensions and investments. You will have a strong understanding of the competitive e-commerce space in order to grow our revenues as well as our audience.

As part of the role you will be writing and editing new and existing content as well as play a key role in setting out the wider strategy for the website. You will also work towards becoming an expert on various personal finance topics (if you\'re not already) and be one of our media spokespeople.

You\'re a team player but also someone who\'s just happy to get on with things.You\'ll be working closely with the rest of the team to present a variety of money-focused content types in the best possible way.

Times Money Mentoris on a mission to demystify money, so a passion for telling stories that make it interesting and relevant to different audiences is a must. Experience in personal finance and editing is a must. Please indicate on your application any relevant experience you have.

Apply with a covering letter and your CV by July 23rd.

Day to day you will:

• Writing, editing and commissioning content (new as well as existing), making sure it\'s 100% accurate

Become an expert on various personal finance topics including pensions, investments and banking as well as lifestyle hacks for money-saving and money-growing.

Understand what content performs well by maintaining constant awareness of site strategy and performance including traffic, engagement and revenue, using this knowledge to steer future strategy and content tests.

Work with our commercial team on pitches for partnerships and campaigns around high-performing content.

Edit personal finance articles, including explainers and best-buy lists, alongside our independent data providers, to build our SEO-driven articles library and evergreen content.

Be one of TMM\'s spokespeople and be part of our radio and TV strategy

Use data and SEO to get editorial and commercial insights

Work closely with our compliance partner to ensure FCA guidelines are closely followed in all our content.

UpholdTimes Money Mentor\'sstandards of journalistic rigour, accuracy, and fairness,ensuring TMM\'s tone of voice is consistent across the site.

What we\'re looking for from you:

• You have a minimum of one year working in a similar role

You thrive under pressure and can work to tight deadlines while maintaining high standards

You\'re passionate about the future of digital journalism

You have lots of ideas and the organisational skills to execute them

You can work well independently or as part of a team

You enjoy keeping up to date with personal finance news and products launched

You can balance editorial and business needs and have a clear vision on how we can achieve the goals of growing revenue and audience.

To apply you must have the right to work in the UK.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands 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 launched 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 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 championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , 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 supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• 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.

Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships , ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

\'Bikes for Work\' scheme

Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

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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