We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast.
talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir. Talk is redefining speech broadcasting on digital and audio platforms. We also have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland.
Your team: We are the News Broadcasting Marketing & Social teams, dedicated to building campaigns, creative designs, media planning and growing our broadcasting brands - including Talk, Virgin Radio and talkSPORT.
Day to day you will:
Take control of posting key marketing assets across talkSPORT & Virgin Radio channels
Daily posts to promote live sport, guests, presenters, shows, talkSPORT & Virgin Radio products and live listening
Working closely with wider marketing team to understand the key daily and weekly campaigns and how they can feed into it
Liaising with agencies to make sure they're getting assets in social sizes and they align to social and marketing strategies
Organising and overseeing the production of videos and shoots, from booking talent and freelancers to executing video campaigns
Clipping video from the talkSPORT & Virgin Radio live streams to promote individual shows across social media.
What we’re looking for from you:
Complete understanding of all social media channels and how to engage with fans across our various touchpoints
Ability to digest and report back effectiveness of campaigns working with social media reporting tools
Knowledge of content marketing and how to build key campaigns to deliver messages effectively
Ability to digest key overarching campaign themes to produce effective messaging that will work for social channels
Graphic design skills are essential, plus video shooting and editing desirable.
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 champion diversity and inclusion, 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 the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.
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 any reasonable adjustments during 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.