An exciting opportunity to help develop the profile and coverage of Telegraph Women’s Sport.

The Deputy Editor will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day coverage of women’s sports, and supporting the editor with commissioning and editing content.

This is a part-time position, which will work 4 days per week.

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and equal parental pay (six months fully paid for mothers and fathers), to life assurance, and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

We want you to feel you belong here and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

We have a number of internal networks that are totally inclusive and open for anyone to join. These include internal inclusion networks covering employees from ethnic minority backgrounds, working families, LGBTQ+, disabilities and long-term conditions, gender, wellbeing, and women in tech.

Your wellbeing is paramount, so we have trained over 100 Mental Health First Aiders in the last two years to help support our employees. We’ve also signed the Tech Talent Charter, and are committed to driving greater inclusion and diversity in tech.

Key responsibilities

• Commissioning, editing and distributing a range of women’s sport content across digital and print platforms
• Helping to ensure that women’s sport coverage is effectively integrated into the wider sports desk’s agenda: liaising with commissioners and publishers, social team and design
• Responsible for women’s sports news and live sport
• Planning effectively across sports calendars
• Building strong relationships with reporters and helping them to develop stories and ideas
• Supporting the Women’s Sports Editor in the development and implementation of departmental strategies
• Helping to curate and publish the monthly women’s sport supplement

Key skills

• Ability to commission unique, original and important journalism
• An understanding of the changing narrative around women’s sports coverage
• Strong news sense and editorial judgement
• Excellent editing skills - to fine tune a headline, or make a piece sing
• Ability to curate impactful storytelling across a range of digital platforms
• A team player with strong communication skills
• Growth mindset in tackling challenges from navigating a fast-moving editorially driven Sport department, to helping to steer an investigative project

The Telegraph’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, and disability. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

For more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.