Features Writer

The digital edition of the award-winning current affairs magazine The Week is looking for a features writer to join our friendly team. Like our sister print publications, The Week’s website cherry-picks the best news articles, features and opinion pieces from media outlets across the globe and weaves them together into bite-sized digests and comprehensive briefings. A new range of web, app and online features are under development and will be a key responsibility for the new Features Writer.

What you will be doing...

The features writer will be responsible for:

Writing culture and lifestyle features for The Week's UK website and newsletters. These will be a mix of original content and digests of other reviews and features, compiled in The Week's signature style
Commissioning and editing freelance writers and reviewers
Uploading some stories from The Week magazine to complement the digital team's output
Working with other writers and editors across The Week's news and features team
There are also opportunities to take part in our award-winning podcast, The Week Unwrapped

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve...

Excellent writing, proofreading and organisational skills
A broad interest in culture and lifestyle journalism. Specialist knowledge of one or two subjects within this area (eg food, film, fashion, travel etc) would be an advantage
Capable of meeting tight deadlines and juggling multiple tasks
You should be familiar with The Week’s approach to news and features and have a good sense of what will interest our readers
Three to five years of relevant work experience, ideally including digital features journalism
NCTJ or equivalent journalism degree preferred
Experience in using content management systems would be beneficial

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch and learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you are not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

The expected range for this role is £26,000 - £30,000

This is a hybrid role from our London Office, working three days from the office, two from home