Assistant Editor, The Telegraph (Features and Lifestyle)

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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 world’s 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
As Assistant Editor, The Telegraph (Features and Lifestyle) you will:

• Be responsible for all features and lifestyle output across telegraph.co.uk, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, reporting into the Editor and Director of Content
• Lead areas including daily features and news analysis content, the culture, fashion and lifestyle sections, travel and the Telegraph Magazine
• Help lead the continued digital transformation of The Telegraph ensuring that your department thinks and acts digital first and that content supports The Telegraph’s subscriber strategy
• Build a high-performing team that has smart ideas and executes them brilliantly. Identify, attract and develop the best writing talent for The Telegraph

Key Responsibilities

• All editorial output in the Features and Lifestyle sections of The Telegraph, digitally and in print
• Leading the department and representing at appropriate daily and weekly conferences
• Ensuring that The Telegraph’s features output serves the wants and needs of our subscribers and attracts more subscribers
• Identifying, recruiting and promoting the best commissioners, writers and publishers
• People management - ensuring that the department is managed effectively and that we make the best of the talent that we have
• Ensure that the department has the appropriate meetings, systems and structures to run efficiently and deliver the best journalism to our readers
• Financial responsibility for the department, hitting budgets and maximising the return on the budget
• Innovation - ensuring that we develop new content themes and types of subjects that broaden the appeal of the Telegraph
• Contributing to the broader Telegraph outside the Features and Lifestyle department in terms of ideas, processes and strategic initiatives

Key Skills

• Proven experience as a senior executive in journalism - running substantial departments in fast-moving news or features environment
• Strong track record of striking ideas, producing compelling output that demonstrably builds audiences
• Command of the news agenda and natural understanding of the subjects and stories that will drive subscriber engagement
• Track record in delivering best in class reported or analytical features
• A broad frame of reference and interests. Ability to identify good subjects for features from a wide range of subjects that are of interest to our readers
• High-quality publishing skills in digital and print. Understanding of how to maximise the impact of our journalism through how it is presented, how it is headlined and how it is sold on our platforms and third-party platforms
• Proven track record in digital publishing. An understanding of analytics and how to use them to improve the department’s output
• A proven identifier and developer of talent, you should have a list of people you would want to attract or develop and a plan of how you would do so
• Strong organisational skills to ensure that a large and complex department runs efficiently and with open and clear communication
• Highly developed people management skills. Ability to get the best out of people through setting clear expectations and helping people achieve their objectives
• Proven ability to manage substantial budgets

Our 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
Candidates are drawn to companies that highlight key benefits and ongoing support, this is a great opportunity to discuss our training and development opportunities, whether company-wide or role-specific If relevant, please add any role-specific training and development opportunities here in bullet point or paragraph form, for example, systems training, Soft skills workshops e.g. Stakeholder management, presentation skills, personal impact 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.