The Telegraph’s economics coverage is hugely popular among our most engaged, paying digital readers.

The principal responsibility of the Economics Editor will be to lead the Telegraph’s economic reporting team and spearhead our coverage in this crucial area.

This new writing role, created as part of the Telegraph’s ambitious investment in journalism, is intended to help drive paid subscriptions as part of our new digital strategy.

Key responsibilities:

• Find and write the best, most interesting exclusive stories by speaking to contacts and interrogating data for publication across our digital and print products
• Originate and write original, ideas-driven interviews, features and analysis on a daily basis in areas including Brexit, the Eurozone crisis, debt bubbles, monetary policy and all other areas of macroeconomics and political economy of interest to the Telegraph readership
• Help develop new storytelling formats for economics journalism, including data journalism and graphics as well as text
• Contribute to a new economics newsletter and to other digital products
• The role is primarily a writing one but will also include some commissioning and editing, and will include guiding other members of the economics team
• Working with the social media and SEO teams to promote the economics’ team’s digital output

Essential skills required for the role:

• Excellent understanding of economics and of the Telegraph’s audience and history
• Clear, distinct writing style and ability to explain the most complex of economic concepts and the most abstract ideas to a general audience
• Proven ability to spot great stories and opportunities from an array of sources
• Ability to originate multiple ideas every day and to think in headlines
• Ability to think in graphical terms and to conceptualise visual representations of economic stories
• Digitally savvy - understanding of digital storytelling and optimisation of content through social media and SEO

Additional skills useful for the role:

• Ability to manipulate data
• Knowledge of data visualisation apps

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