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The Times and The Sunday Times, Video Commissioning Editor

Employer
The Times and The Sunday Times
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 18, 2023

The video commissioning editor role forms an important part of The Times and The Sunday Times digital content creation strategy, responsible for delivering high-quality news and features video for our smartphone app, website and social media channels.

The ideal candidate will be a recent graduate who is self-shooting producer with a clear understanding of The Times and The Sunday Times audiences – present and future. You will have some experience in filming and editing video content for online platforms and be comfortable working with the wide array of talented journalists across both titles to leverage the knowledge and experience they have about their particular subject into creating the best possible video content.

You will need to be able to engage our readers with thoughtful and imaginative visual treatment of the issues of the moment. You should be as comfortable editing one-minute pieces as you are filming and editing longer destination productions to cut down for evergreen pieces. 

Working as part of the travel team, and alongside the social video producer, you will commission live and evergreen videos for YouTube and article embeds. You will have access to experienced video producers for advice and guidance as well as the wider travel editorial team.

Key skills and responsibilities

  • Evidence of filming on a range of cameras, including the Canon C200 or equivalent

  • Build strong relationships and work comfortably across the newsroom

  • Excellent knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro; some understanding of Adobe After Effects is also desirable

  • NCTJ or equivalent qualification and excellent writing skills

  • Experience of filming and self-producing high-quality video across a range of genres, on location, often without assistance

  • Able to edit pacy, visual, interesting news video, sometimes under great time pressure, ensuring that all information is accurate and in house style

  • Able to work on longer-term news and features which are unique and differentiated from the competition

  • Be comfortable working in a team on collaborative projects as well as working on solo projects delivered to tight deadlines

  • Take responsibility for valuable video production equipment

  • Have a positive, flexible attitude to your work

  • The job will form part of a seven-day rota with some weekend work required

  • Full, clean UK driving licence

This job is for you if...

  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment 

  • You embrace change and are always looking to learn

  • You have a passion for travel

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Apply with a covering letter, your CV and a link to a showreel of recent work by June 18.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work 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. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options.  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 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship,  Women’s Steering Group and Disability network. 

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support. 

In addition we also offer:   

  •    A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

  •    Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

  •     30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

  •     Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.  

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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