Picture editor, Style – Maternity cover in London, United Kingdom

Picture editor, Style – Maternity cover

Location:

London

Department:

The Sunday Times

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

03 Feb 2025

Job Description

Picture editor, Style – MAT cover

The Sunday Times Style magazine is looking for a picture editor for a maternity cover contract.

The picture editor will work collaboratively with senior editors, designers and sub-editors to produce Style on multiple platforms.

The successful candidate will be an experienced picture editor or senior picture researcher for a national newspaper or magazine with excellent contacts. You will have a strong interest in fashion and current affairs and you will be able to demonstrate your visual creativity and your spark for storytelling.

Apply with a covering letter and your CV by February 3.

Responsibilities

• Pitching creative ideas to senior editors and providing alternative ideas where appropriate

• Partnering with the social media and audience engagement teams to produce engaging social media picture packages

• Investigating suitable exclusive content ideas or picture-led stories, including archive content

• Having a clear understanding of the editorial and visual objectives of Style magazine

• Ensuring that forward planning is managed effectively, especially for major events or exclusive stories on social media platforms and our website

• Commissioning photographers to produce distinctive images for digital and print picture packages

• Managing relationships with agencies and other external contacts to source or commission pictures as cost-efficiently as possible

• Ensuring all pictures published are editorially compliant and appropriately attributed

• Managing good working relationships with editors and production colleagues

• Manage the pictures budget for Style ensuring resources are used efficiently.

Skills and experience

• A qualification or strong experience in journalism or photography

• Experience working in the media at a newspaper, magazine or website or for a picture agency

• Demonstrable interest in fashion, celebrity, beauty, interiors and current affairs

• Strong understanding of social media platforms and how they can engage our existing audience and drive new subscribers to The Sunday Times

• Able to integrate audience data and adapt picture stories accordingly

• Experience establishing strong working relationships and building credibility with senior managers

• Creative problem-solving

• Highly organised and able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

• A collaborative, flexible working style with experience working in partnership with design and production

• Strong understanding of usage rights, permissions and copyright

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

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, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

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

• Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• 30 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected] .