The Telegraph - Culture Assistant

About The Telegraph

The Telegraph is an award-winning, multimedia news brand synonymous with quality, credibility and authority for more than 160 years.

We are renowned for the analysis, perspective, opinion and insight our journalism provides to a discerning audience. Every day the content we create sets the news agenda, sparking debate and provoking comment.

Our vision, with quality journalism at the heart, is to pioneer new ways to serve 10 million registered users and 1 million subscribers. We’ll achieve this with a constant focus on our journalism, and by using the data and understanding we have of The Telegraph’s audience to successfully grow our revenue streams from subscriptions to advertising, travel, events, and financial services.

We want to capture 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.

For more information on our purpose, beliefs and people values, please visit our website. To see our latest brand campaign visit telegraph.co.uk/wordschosenwell.

About The Role

We are looking for a highly organised individual with a ‘can do’ attitude to be an assistant in support of the Telegraph’s prestigious Culture desk. This role is attached to the TV section of the Culture desk and is focused on assisting with TV production work.

This is a great entry-level role to the Telegraph and arts journalism and would particularly suit a candidate with a strong interest in TV. The role will involve some opportunity to develop writing and editing skills. It also involves administrative work and general assistance tasks. The administrative work comes to around a day a week (although it can be carried out across a number of days).

Key Responsibilities

● Assisting the TV section in listings and previews production.

● Upload articles to the Telegraph website and posts to the Telegraph culture social accounts

● Help fix interviews for the desk

● Contribute ideas to the team

● Research and write stories and reviews, particularly for online, when requested

● Develop and apply ‘first read’ editing and subbing skills

● Help organise and compile the TV newsletter

● Undertake general administrative duties, including financial administration, distributing post and organising books cupboard

Key Skills

● A good knowledge of TV

● Excellent organisation

● Excellent research and writing skills

● Able to work independently, using initiative, and also as part of a team

● Polite, confident and persuasive on the phone

● Able to adhere to quick and strict deadlines and work under pressure

● Weekend work may be required

Additional skills useful for the role

● Digital, social media and SEO awareness

● Production skills, including familiarity with Adobe InDesign

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.