Executive Lifestyle Editor

A senior role within our Features and Lifestyle team, commissioning and overseeing features and lifestyle content that showcase and develop our top-quality Telegraph journalism.

Key responsibilities

● Work with the Head of Lifestyle and the senior lifestyle departments; health, travel, fashion & beauty, gardening, interiors and motoring on daily digital stories and weekend longreads.

● Ensuring a clear vision and maintaining the high editorial quality and subscription targets expected of the Lifestyle team to ensure they deliver top quality journalism on all platforms, hitting subscription and digital targets.

● Liaise with other Features and Lifestyle department heads, all freelance contributors plus other Telegraph departments as and when required.

● Work with Head of Lifestyle to generate exciting new projects that contribute to our subscription strategy

Essential vs desirable skills required for the role

● Significant experience of writing, commissioning and editing, on time and to deadline, on national publications.

● Significant experience of, and contacts within, the health, fashion, beauty and features markets.

● A track record in ideas generation and innovation across all platforms.

● Experience of managing freelance contributors.

● Experience of budgeting.

● Strong interpersonal skills - including the ability to communicate effectively with heads of department, and across departments.

● Experience of leading an editorial team.

● Experience of liaising with commercial teams and advertisers.
Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance, and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.