Job Description

Head of Content
We are News Ireland: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday. Our broadcast brands include talk SPORT, Times Radio, Talk TV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News Ireland is wholly owned by News Corp.
Your role:The head of content leads the news team, working closely with the editor, Ireland and the deputy editor, Ireland to deliver a distinctive, agenda-setting content package across all platforms. This job is responsible for ensuring world-class standards of digital and print journalism, and leading the editorial team in digital-first commissioning and publishing.
Day to day you will:

• Successfully manage productive relationships with the editor, deputy editor and other section
  
• editors in Dublin and London
  
• Work closely with the Audience editor to inform the team of audience trends and data insights
  
• Work with editors, writers and reporters to conceive, commission and edit exclusive
  
• agenda-setting news stories for a digital audience and help to curate the Ireland section of the
  
• Website
  
• Use audience data to help guide commissioning and construct headlines
  
• Generate top-class ideas and guide them through to become multi-platform stories
  
• Forward-plan, working with journalists on long-range projects and big campaigns
  
• Use social networking and other digital platforms for content generation and to promote The
  
• Sunday Times Ireland content
  
• Commission exclusive video, polls, interactive graphics and picture galleries to engage our digital
  
• audience and plan how these stories are shared and promoted online
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of what works best for digital, offering content that is distinctive
  
• Commission constructive news stories, putting people at the heart of stories, with high quality
  
• analysis and expertise
  
• Help to lead and manage the newsroom, develop talent and support progression
  

What we are looking for from you:

• Experience working as a newsroom leader in digital news for a national newspaper or website
  
• Demonstrable interest in news and current affairs
  
• Strong people management skills
  
• Demonstrable understanding of how audience data supports commissioning and how to promote a story on social media and through search engines
  
• Knows how to attract and retain new audiences
  
• An ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and with rigorous accuracy
  
• Reliable and prepared to put in extra time and effort where necessary
  
• Ability to communicate succinctly and effectively
  
• Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
  
• Persuasive presentation skills, well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to
  
• Problem-solve
  
• A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues
  

Life at News: At News 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 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 5%;
  
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
  
• Group Health scheme
  
• Free Health screening every 2 years
  
• Discounted gym memberships, Class Pass 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 & Ireland 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 & Ireland, 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.