Homepage Producer - London, United Kingdom - ESI Media

ESI Media

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About us:

The Evening Standard is an iconic London brand, recognised as setting the agenda in politics and business, as well as being first with lifestyle content, major news and sports stories.

We are UK's largest quality daily and online newspaper, with one of the fastest growing audiences in the UK. We provide brands and marketers with an unparalleled gateway to London's high-value audiences through digital, print, social and events.

ES Magazine, Homes and Property and ecommerce platform ES Best are all market leading in their fields, and add to the compelling Evening Standard portfolio.

We are proud of our history and firmly set on a future that is focused on growing audiences and revenue with a digital first entrepreneurial approach.

The team:

This role sits within our audience team who cover all aspects of content promotion including social, SEO, the website, and liaising with our media partners.

The team play a crucial role in steering commissioning around the newsroom by spotting latest trends and upcoming stories, as well as optimising existing content to ensure we are presenting it in the best way for each of our platforms.

The homepage producer attends daily morning meetings with the audience team during which we discuss priorities, trends and commission content.

The role:

The Homepage Producer is responsible for keeping the front page and main section pages of up to date and looking as engaging and attractive as possible.

Stories, headlines and images must be carefully selected, and a mix of content from across our desks presented to maximise traffic and engagement.

This role is also responsible for curating our top content for our partners such as Google.

About you:

Key responsibilities:

Curate the homepage throughout the day to maximise traffic and reflect ES values and priorities
Select images and optimise headlines to maximise engagement
React to breaking news and ensure the homepage is constantly up to date
Curate the best of our content for media partners such as Google Showcase
Contribute ideas to the audience team on trending content
Help desks with uploading content to the CMS
There is also opportunity to write and create original content

Skills and experience:

Experience working in a fastpaced newsroom environment
Excellent knowledge of current affairs
Confidence to work independently
Ability to write engaging headlines and sells
Ability to identify trends that would make for good potential stories
Understand the ES brand, tone and audience

At the Evening Standard our ambition is to represent our city with a team and through content that reflects our audience.

We want to attract those voices previously underrepresented in media, offering a rewarding career and opportunities for all.

Teamwork is key to our success. We want all our people to feel like they belong and that their voices matter.

Expected behaviours:

Continuous Improvement - Works in a smart, flexible and focused way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
Collaboration - Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
Building Capability - Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
Quality Service - Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.
To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a covering letter and salary expectations_

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