Reporter - We are looking for a Social Media Journalist to join Scotland’s News Website of the Year team and award winning paper to source and bring social media stories to life ensuring that our readers stay engaged with our content.

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

The Team: We are The Scottish Sun. The Scottish Sun is Scotland’s No.1, award-winning newsbrand. The Scottish Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people. The Scottish Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse and a daily relationship. The Scottish Sun strives to the very highest standards of accuracy in its reporting, and continues to invest in original journalism in print and online.

Your Role: The Social Media Journalist plays a key role in the development and execution of the Scottish Sun’s social media strategy, as well as curating content and editing/maintaining Scottish Sun’s social media pages to a high standard and to satisfy a wide range of audiences.

Day to day

• Play a key role in the ongoing development and execution of The Scottish Sun's social media strategy

• Curate content from across Scottish Sun Online to satisfy a diverse range of audience demographics. 

• Edit and maintain The Scottish Sun’s social media channels to a high standard in close conjunction with the rest of the team. 

• Contribute to The Scottish Sun’s adoption of emerging social platforms and tools, and take responsibility for the growth of The Scottish Sun’s new social channels. 

• Work directly with editorial, digital, video, picture, design, radio, commercial, marketing, social and audience teams across the business, ensuring their respective demands are met. 

• As a team, ensure the newsroom has sufficient insight to produce Internet-friendly stories, and take responsibility for their subsequent distribution on social media channels. 

• Actively source stories from social media that are likely to perform well across all Scottish Sun platforms with a focus on our own social channels

• Focus on targets and be clear on what is required in order to meet them. Work flexibly across a seven-day rota.

• Assist with best practice for SEO, including using Google Trends to make recommendations on key search terms and relevant keywords to maximise search traffic

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Someone who is thoroughly passionate about all things journalism, social media, current affairs and sport

• An understanding of the The Scottish Sun brand across print, digital and social media channels

• Experience using Wordpress and analytic tools including Parse.ly, Google Analytics, Newswhip, Facebook, Twitter Analytics and Insights and Google Trends

• Demonstrable experience to deliver consistently high standards under pressure in a deadline-driven environment

• Experience of implementing best SEO practice 

• A proactive approach with a willingness to take on any task

• A team player and a problem-solver who can overcome obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches. 

Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

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 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group. 

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%;

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

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

• 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.