MEO Project Manager in London, United Kingdom

MEO Project Manager

Location:

London

Department:

The Sun

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

30 May 2024

Job Description

MEO Project Manager

Contract: 12 Month FTC

Location: London

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your role: You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation of our editorial team. Your sharp organisational skills and keen eye for detail will help keep our newsroom running efficiently. From managing schedules, helping with and getting involved with projects and coordinating meetings to assisting with editorial tasks, you’ll be an essential part of our editorial process.

Day to day you will:

• Support the Associate Managing Editor with all Newsroom projects and initiatives by providing reporting and progress updates.

• Supporting the MEO with ensuring the newsroom is kept up to date via owning and executing a comms plan

• Carry out general administrative support for the team which may include some general admin tasks and will include significant input in helping with project management and maintaining records in databases

• Identifying instances where processes could be developed for improved efficiency and reporting these to the ME.

• Develop positive and productive working relationships across key support areas, becoming a point of contact alongside other members of the MEO for Facilities, Technology, Finance and HR.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Able to work calmly under pressure and meet tight deadlines

• Experience of Project Management

• Previous experience of admin in a large and fast paced organisation.

• An ability to adapt to a changing work environment as required

• Punctual and is always prepared to ‘go the extra mile’ where necessary

• Able to work off own initiative and as part of a team

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, especially Word and Excel

• Knowledge of Google Mail G-Suite

• Track record of having delivered excellent admin support and services

• Previous experience assisting with Project Management an advantage

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , 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 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 daysholidayand up to 4volunteeringdays per year;

• Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurancecovering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’scheme

• Access towellbeing benefitssuch as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require anyreasonable adjustmentsduring the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.