Digital Editor

Big Issue is seeking a Digital Editor of vision and rare ability to help drive forward our digital-first content plan. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our new editorial engagement strategy, alongside other senior editorial team leaders across all our platforms, bringing even more people to Big Issue and helping expand our mission of dismantling poverty, creating opportunity and fighting for social justice. You will bring ideas and expertise built up from previous experience as a digital editor or similar output producer management role to develop projects with reporters and those with a stake in a better future.

You will have strong grounding in investigative journalism, be across the political and cultural landscape of Britain and beyond, have a brilliant contacts book, a way with headlines, a wit in delivery and experience in creating data-led target market-specific content. You will be across developing publishing trends. You will be brimming with must-read, must-view, must-engage ideas and be able to help nurture and grow the next generation of journalistic talent.

You will be a key advocate of the Big Issue Group Brand and have this at the heart of all the role entails.

The role is full time and permanent based at our London (Finsbury Park) office with hybrid working available. There will be necessary travel to our Glasgow editorial base.

Main Duties:
Assigning stories to journalists and working with the team to develop excellent content
Preparing work schedules and deadlines, encouraging team members to meet targets, and facilitating timely publication
Ensuring the editorial sections of the website, including home page and category pages, are kept updated and engaging for returning visitors
Keeping your antennae buzzing for the right sort of Big Issue content that meets our identity and grows our reach
Designing innovative and unique solutions to optimize routine daily news and feature coverage
Managing The Big Issue engagement editor to increase readers / audience engagement and trust across all Big Issue channels
Monitoring and using multimedia, social media and alternative storytelling strategies to widen readership base
Commissioning content in step with the magazine deputy editor and other seniors across the team
Editing news content with the production team
Overseeing beat-specific newsletters with reporters and looking to create and develop new newsletters
Overseeing The Dispatch section of The Big Issue magazine, bringing content from online for a weekly digest
Ensuring we are driving traffic to key Big Issue content pillars, continually developing these pillars, and adapting our SEO strategy around them
Liaising frequently with the commercial teams to ensure that we are hitting revenue targets
Working closely with marketing and PR teams so that digital plays a key role in extending The Big Issue's reach and impact