Food Editor Delicious

What’s the role?

As our Food Editor, you will have an in-depth knowledge of food trends, an educated palate and excellent cooking skills. You are responsible for developing, testing and writing recipes true to the delicious. brand values and style, with an understanding of our audience and readership. You will understand contributor relationships, and work with the Food Director to create premium, reliable and beautiful recipes for the magazine and delicious.com.au

You will have extensive experience in cooking within a commercial or food media environment. You will have an eye for envisioning how the recipes, images and text will live on the page and you will work with the food team on issue themes. You will create short videos for social media. You will work in conjunction with the delicious brand extensions where required.

You will be expected to manage the workflow of the test kitchen and deputise for the Food Director as required, stepping up to tasks assigned to you on the Food Director’s behalf.

Based between our Surry Hills office and Alexandria test kitchen and reporting to the Food Director, the role requires an organised team player who shows initiative, can juggle several tasks at once and can adapt easily to the distinct style of Australia's favourite premium food brand.

Explore your passion for food, cooking and recipes

Utilise your food knowledge to create engaging content

Work with a dynamic and passionate team

Full-time 6 months contract role (renewable) located at our kitchen studio in Alexandria

Start date effective immediately.

Who are you?

Commercial Cookery Certificate 3

A minimum of 6 years commercial cookery or publishing experience

An exceptional level of technical food knowledge

Good recipe writing skills

Excellent communication skills and be a team player

Great organisational skills and flexibility

Attention to detail

A creative flair and ability to conceptualise on the go

An ability to adapt to a specific audience

A passion for staying ahead of the trends

A driver’s licence and a car

News Benefits

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms