Social Media Editor

talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and a globally-renowned digital publisher, with a social footprint of almost 10M followers.

The talkSPORT.com team spans across several departments – including editorial, social, audience and tech – and we are looking for a new Social Media Editor to help manage and oversee the scheduling and delivery of website articles and graphics across our social channels.

Your role: We are seeking a knowledgeable and passionate Social Media Editor who has a proven track record of driving referral traffic and generating engagement across various platforms, with experience of managing teams.

Leading our website-first social media posting, the successful candidate will be responsible for owning the website’s output across Facebook, Twitter/X, and YouTube. This will involve overseeing a small team of Social Media Assistants, liaising with the editorial team on story selection and publishing, identifying hooks within content that appeal to our social audience, and analysing real-time data to inform what to post, where, and when.

Day to day you will:

Offering guidance and support to the rest of the team in addition to managing the monthly rota

Posting and scheduling a variety of talkSPORT.com articles across multiple social platforms

Creating visually appealing images that promote and complement website stories

Working collaboratively and at speed to post breaking news and jump on trending topics

Contributing to daily article ideation sessions based on what’s trending across social media

Communicating with our video team on scheduling times to ensure there are no clashes

Monitoring traffic trends in real-time and continually feeding back any key insight or learnings

What we are looking for from you:

Essential

A knowledge of and passion for a wide range of sports and social media platforms

Proven track record of managing social accounts, preferably within the sports media industry

Experience overseeing teams and helping to direct/mentor junior members of staff

An understanding of how to optimise posts for different social media platforms

An ability to pick out bits of information within articles that appeal to social audiences

Comfortable using Photoshop and/or possessing general graphic design skills

Able to commute into our London Bridge offices at least three times a week

Strong communication skills and a real team player with good work ethic

Flexibility to work across evenings and weekends on a five-of-seven days rota

Desirable

Knowledge of US-centric sports, including American Football and Basketball

Editorial-led brain with experience of working closely with writers and editors

Data-driven by nature who enjoys analysing performance and iterating strategies accordingly

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. 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.

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 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 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