The Telegraph - Head of Personal Finance

About us

For over 160 years, The Telegraph’s stories, dispatches, interviews, and investigations have set the agenda, sparked debate, and provided generations of readers with a trusted source of news, information, and opinion.

Our vision, with quality journalism at the heart, is to pioneer new ways to serve 10 million registered users and 1 million subscribers, by 2023, a vision we all stand behind. We wouldn’t be one of the worlds most successful media organisations without the talent, determination, and creative spirit of our people. As our readers’ needs evolve, it’s more important than ever that we recruit original thinkers and innovative individuals who can keep us at the forefront of our industry. That means not only journalists but also marketers, analysts, designers, engineers, and much more.

We want to foster the diversity of thought through our people, create inclusive working environments that allow everyone to be their authentic selves at work while creating a sense of belonging to ensure we have the highest performing teams.

About the role

A senior and highly significant position, with prominence inside The Telegraph and externally, the Head of Personal Finance is tasked with delivering all of our personal finance journalism and managing the expanding team of reporters responsible for The Telegraph’s award-winning coverage.

Key Responsibilities

The Head of Personal Finance will be responsible for:

● Driving subscriptions by publishing the best personal finance journalism in Britain, including news, features, comment, analysis, explainers, tools and more

● Commissioning, editing and overseeing production of all Money content including digital, print and newsletters, making sure we publish the strongest content with the best presentation

● Working with Telegraph colleagues in other departments including News, Business, Social, Audience, Design, Commercial etc

● Organising the flow of content to meet an array of deadlines including digital deadlines throughout the day, print supplements twice a week and regular contributions to seven days of News and Business print pages

● Managing a large team of direct reports, including reporters and editors, to bring out the maximum potential of the team

● Using audience analytics to inform and improve idea generation

● Developing campaigns and investigations

Key Skills

The ideal candidate will be:

● A proven leader with considerable experience working in journalism at a national level

● An exceptional editor with an instinctive grasp of tone

● Bursting with ideas to commission and edit content across a range of formats

● Politically savvy with a nose for news

● Alive to the interests of our audience and our editorial priorities

● Hungry to grow our audience and full of ideas for how to do so

● Knowledgeable and interested in all fields of personal finance

● Highly numerate

● Experienced in print and digital publishing with an ability to identify the strongest angle and a knack for writing headlines

● Comfortable with the use of analytics

● Able to win the confidence of key colleagues across many editorial and non-editorial departments

● Able to motivate and manage reporters and editors while demanding accuracy and excellence in often pressured circumstances

● Aware of legal and regulatory requirements

● Understanding of the Telegraph’s subscription model

● Highly organised, energetic, resilient and enthusiastic

Closing Date: Sunday 23rd January 2022

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 by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. 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. Our organisation is on a continuous journey to achieve this sense of belonging, with focused inclusion policies, training, and internal networks. We believe it’s not only the right thing to do but that there’s a strong business case to support it. Because if you feel you belong, you’ll feel more comfortable, so you’ll be more likely to achieve your best.

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.

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.

Closing Date: Sunday 23rd January 2022