We are:

News UK & Ireland is a phenomenal company full of talented, dedicated, and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever growing organisation with a real passion for quality content and storytelling.

Our digital and print products include some of the most powerful media brands in the world, reaching over 30 million people each week.

Our brands include national newspapers - The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times and radio stations under the Wireless Group umbrella, including; FM104, Cork 96, LMFM, U105.8 and many more, as well as global ad tech business Unruly and social intelligence agency Storyful.

The team:

The Sun Online is the biggest mobile news brand in the UK - and still growing! - with a talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value. 

Our hugely successful SEO team sits at the core of our publishing operation and is constantly evolving, driving search traffic, growing new audiences, and building engagement and loyalty with our readers.

Our SEO editors work on a rota so regular evening (usually one week a month) and weekend (usually once a month) work is essential to this exciting, rewarding role.

Day to day you will: 

• Represent the department at editorial conferences, report on key search trends and give specific recommendations about important search stories and events. 
• Take responsibility for a specific section of the site and drive, monitor and report on SEO success. 
• Ensure subject desks and SEO journalists write about SEO priorities in the most effective way and manage their workflow. 
• Pre-plan for future articles and events by building out topics, doing keyword research for upcoming exclusives or events, and coming up with SEO plans. 
• Use a range of analytics tools to report regularly on top pages/articles driving SEO traffic.
• Make SEO recommendations to journalists on individual articles (EG headlines) - both proactively and in response to requests for help. 
• Edit live articles to match SEO best practice. 
• Train and mentor the more junior SEO editors. 

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Essential: Editorial background with experience in a digital publishing environment and of reacting quickly to breaking news and changing search trends. 
• Essential: Good understanding of the technical principles behind editorial SEO 
• Essential: Familiar with a range of SEO tools 
• Desirable: Experience of working within Wordpress 

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Equal opportunities:

The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.

We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.

This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.