National Digital Sports Editor
What’s the role?
Focus on publishing sports content to maximize audience growth in line with the company's digital Stay and Pay goals.
Ensure you maximize both audience and commercial return.
Take charge of the production staff responsible for amplifying, socializing, and producing content in the NSN and CODE Sports matrix.
Report to the National Sports Editor.
Collaborate with key NCA stakeholders to deliver top-notch sports coverage, retain existing audiences, attract new subscribers, and add value for current customers.
Key aims: Grow digital subscription acquisition, drive retention and premium editorial breaches, distribute journalism through social media and app alerts, and reach new audiences on existing or emerging social media channels.
Collaborate with NSN newsroom editors and CODE Sports in planning and daily publishing.
Attend and brief stakeholders in conferences and meetings as needed.
Represent NCA Sport at external meetings with stakeholders as required.
Manage staff, rosters, and leave liability.
Apply the NSN audience-first and data-led digital subscription acquisition and retention/engagement growth strategy.
Use data and analytics to inform and drive outcomes aligned with the company’s "Stay and Pay" strategy.
Be accountable for implementing changes to the digital strategy as directed by the business.
Achieve digital audience growth in NSN and CODE Sports.
Meet key targets for NSN and CODE Sports.
Deliver on commercial and partnership requirements
Who are you?
Prove your ability to generate highly engaging, digital-first content strategically driven by data and audience insights, aligning with the company's digital Stay and Pay objectives.
Demonstrate a track record of utilizing content strategies to maximize audience growth and achieve significant commercial returns, showing a deep understanding of audience preferences and market trends.
Showcase proficiency in managing a team responsible for creating and amplifying diverse content, including compelling narratives, impactful videos, engaging podcasts, and strategic social media campaigns across multiple NCA channels.
Display your ability to foster a creative and collaborative environment, nurturing the professional development of team members while ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality, audience-driven content.
Highlight your expertise in overseeing and directing the operations of a national digital newsroom, with a clear focus on positioning News Corp as the primary and authoritative source for comprehensive sporting news, in-depth analysis, captivating feature stories, and comprehensive live coverage.
Take a strategic approach to managing the newsroom's resources and workflows, ensuring efficient and timely delivery of content while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, relevance, and journalistic integrity
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