Social & Engagement Editor

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the social distribution and audience-growth engine for a major newsroom, translating editorial output into high-impact distribution across video, newsletters, and emerging platforms.

  • Social and Newsletter Growth: Drive audience reach by curating, editing, and distributing content to diverse reader segments with growth experiments.
  • Cross-Functional Delivery: Align editorial, video, design, commercial, and marketing teams to ensure timely distribution and measurable audience insights.
  • Platform Adoption: Lead adoption of new social tools and channels to extend reach and engagement across the newsroom.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in the ongoing development and execution of The Sun's social media and engagement strategy including the transformation of our video distribution strategy.
  • Curate content from across to satisfy a growing range of audience demographics.
  • Edit and maintain The Sun's social media channels to a high standard in close conjunction with the rest of the team.
  • Curate, edit and distribute our vast range of newsletters every week to our loyal subscribers including implementing new growth strategies..
  • Contribute to The Sun’s adoption of emerging social platforms and tools, and take responsibility for the growth of The Sun’s new social channels.
  • Work directly with editorial, digital, video, picture, design, commercial and marketing teams, ensuring their respective demands are met.
  • As a team, ensure the newsroom has sufficient insight to produce stories and take responsibility for their subsequent distribution on social media channels and subscribers.
  • Focus on targets and be clear on what is required in order to meet them.
  • Work flexibly, including early morning, evening and weekend shifts (currently hybrid WFH and office).

Requirements

  • Wide knowledge of social media platforms and current affairs.
  • Strong knowledge of the value newsletters and engagement tools provide.
  • Unflappable under pressure and delivering work at a consistently high standard.
  • Proactive and display a willingness to take on any task.
  • Positive attitude and great team player.
  • Take initiative in order to achieve desired results.
  • Organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of the The Sun brand and audience, both print and digital.

Preferred

    Benefits

    • Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
    • Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
    • ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
    • Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
    • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
    • Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
    • Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
    • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
    • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
    • 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
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    The Sun

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    The Sun was launched in 1969 with the slogan “forward with the people,” because that is what we believe in.The Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people. The Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse and a daily relationship.The Sun has been a campaigning newspaper since its inception and continues to be so today, with recent reporting focusing on the plight of refuge shelters for abused women and on male suicide.The Sun stands for ordinary working people looking to get on, building better lives for themselves and their families, regardless of where they grow up or which school they went to.

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