Social Media Editor (Mat Cover)

Your Team: The Irish Sun Online is one of the biggest mobile news brands in Ireland – and still growing! – with a talented, award-winning team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value.

Your Role: At a time of significant digital growth and expansion for The Irish Sun Online we’re looking for a talented, highly motivated, resourceful individual, with a deep knowledge of social media platforms and current affairs to join our award winning team.

Day to day you will:

• Play a key role in the ongoing development and execution of The Irish Sun’s social media strategy.
• Curate content from across thesun.ie to satisfy a diverse range of audience demographics.
• Edit and maintain The Irish Sun’s social media channels to a high standard in close conjunction with the rest of the team.
• Contribute to The Irish Sun’s adoption of emerging social platforms and tools, and take responsibility for the growth of The Irish Sun’s new social channels.
• Work directly with editorial, digital, video, picture, design, podcast, commercial and marketing teams, ensuring their respective demands are met on various projects and promotions, as well as liaising with teams across the wider Sun brand
• As a team, ensure the newsroom has sufficient insight to produce internet-friendly stories, and take responsibility for their subsequent distribution on social media channels.
• Focus on targets and be clear on what is required in order to meet them.
• Drive social media video strategy, identifying content potential in order to drive engagement, maximising watch time and revenue
• Ensure content shared on social media platforms adheres to respective community guidelines and doesn’t breach rules around copyright infringement with a clear understanding of fair use, AI checks, compliance, rules around violence and gambling, and legal issues.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Deep knowledge of social media platforms and current affairs
• Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard
• Proactive and displays a willingness to take on any task
• Positive attitude and good team player
• Takes initiative in order to achieve desired results
• Self-starter, organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches
• Can demonstrate an understanding of the The Irish Sun brand, both print and digital

Application Process

Please send your CV (including your Twitter and Insta handle) and a cover letter.

To apply you must have the right to work in Ireland.

Life at News

At News UK & Ireland some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity, 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 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

In addition we also offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Pension plan
• Health insurance
• Volunteer days
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary plus 2 weeks Paternity leave
• Bike to Work and tax saver schemes
• Wide range of training available plus full linkedin Learning access.

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 careers@news.co.uk.

Read Full Description