The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience of working in a fast-paced newsroom environment with a team of content editors/producers.

- Proven ability to choose from a wide range of stories and select those that offer the greatest currency and the deepest relevance with an unbiased and objective narration of the facts.

- A keen understanding of the best, most elegant writing offered by high-quality news outlets.

- Solid journalistic skills and strong knowledge of news, finance, sports, entertainment and lifestyle topics of interest to an international audience.

- Attention to detail, an appreciation for strong visual presentation and a passion for editorial excellence.

- Ability to work with all kinds of content genres like text, pictures, graphics and videos.

- Good knowledge of engaging with the audiences on social platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

- Running the editorial operations of individual or a group of markets.

- Working with checklists and guidelines to produce programming that matches global standards.

- Determining the right content mix from partners across a variety of general interest news, finance, sports, entertainment and lifestyle topics.

- Creation of headlines and abstracts for promoting the contents across all entry points within the network and social media platforms.

- Programming across the content calendar while taking into account business priorities and determining the best way to achieve strong business results.

- Working with editorial processes and workflows by adopting the content management system created by the company for this purpose.

- Working closely with technical teams when required to develop or enhance storytelling and publishing tools.

- Primarily Online News background but with active interest in other content genres like Entertainment & Sports

- Should be well-versed with Social Media including Trend Spotting, capturing and analyzing appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information

- Excellent writing, editing, presentation and communication skills.

- Well-informed and well-read

- Demonstrable social networking experience and social analytics tools knowledge

Basic qualifications:

- 4 - 8 years of editorial experience in digital journalism, ideally aimed at a national audience.

- Ability to work across boundaries with shared objectives and a passion around immersive content experiences.

- Experience and keen understanding of online publishing tools and content management systems.

- 3+ years of using metrics-reporting packages to inform content programming and forecasting.

- Degree in journalism, communications or related discipline preferred

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