Independent Video Team

You’ll be joining a group of video journalists during an exciting time of expansion for the department. Shooting, editing, sourcing and clearing video are the department’s priorities as it works with journalists from across the globe on breaking news, features and current affairs.

 

Job Purpose

As a Senior Video Journalist you will produce engaging content for The Independent’s website and social media channels on a wide range of topics. Reporting to the Head of Video you will pitch video ideas, react to breaking stories, attend daily news meetings and be involved in long form productions. You will be expected to shoot and edit original content, write scripts and source footage.

 

About you

• You will have news instinct, have the ability to spot a great story and an appreciation of what type of content works well online
• Thrive in a fast paced, busy newsroom and have the ability to work under pressure
• Have the ability to lead shifts when necessary and work to flexible hours including evenings and weekends
• Have a good understanding of media law, specifically issues surrounding copyright
• Have an understanding of data analytics and be able to work to targets

 

Key responsibilities

You will have to

• Shoot and edit video to tight deadlines
• Deliver engaging content
• Work well with members of other teams to optimise department performance
• Ensure your work is always the highest possible standard it can be
• Be comfortable clearing footage from social media
• Ensure any content produced satisfies legal requirements

 

Skills and experience

Necessary

• Minimum three years’ newsroom experience
• Ability to generate stories using video
• Identify videos that have high traffic potential
• Edit video in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Understanding of SEO
• NCTJ/BJTC qualification
• Confidence communicating with senior editors about ideas and pitches

 

Desired

• Experience using other Adobe CC software i.e After Effects

 

Behaviour expectations

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.

Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk.   Closing date is Friday 29th June 2018

The Independent is looking to add a senior night editor to its team to focus on both The Independent Daily Edition app (the paid-for ‘virtual’ newspaper) and website.

We now have more paying subscribers than the newspaper, and the app edition is the most print-like product we produce. Hence we are looking for candidates with good experience of putting pages together for print – working on a running order, improving headlines, ensuring images work together, etc. The right candidate will also be able to demonstrate they have the sill to shape a great front page, from writing a splash headline to presenting the puffs for the best writing in the edition.

On the web side of the operation – which is deeply linked to the app edition – the role will mainly be ensuring coverage of breaking news, overseeing the team in London, and liaising with the handover to our New York office.

The hours will be negotiated through the process of recruitment but are likely to be approximately 5pm-1am. Duty-editing to improve our seven-day operations will be an advantage. This is very much a chance to join the senior editing team of a fast-growing, mould-breaking, high-quality news publisher with great brand heritage and values.

The ideal candidate should have:

• At least two years of working on a print title
• Proven track record for writing headlines and selecting images
• A strong understanding of what makes a great splash
• Experience of a busy, prominent news or production desk
• A broad appreciation for all sections of a paper – from news to features, obituaries to sport
• Clear communication style
• Team player
• A strong news industry professional
• Ability to inspire a team and develop team-members’ skills and careers in order to collectively achieve business goals

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectation, and notice period to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk.   Closing date is Friday 23^rd February 2018

Purpose of the Role

ESI Media – Publishers of The Independent, The London Evening Standard and Broadcasters of London Live TV – are looking to recruit a User Experience (UX) Designer to work in the Digital team.

As a User Experience Designer, you’ll be responsible for the user experience for ESI Media’s Digital products and services across the product lifecycle; from information gathering and concept development, to producing wireframes and UX deliverables.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established national news media group with a fast-growing digital business. You will be working on products that are at the heart of news consumption and a massive driver of growth for the group.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a UX Designer you will work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, in the digital team and wider business, to design and develop outstanding products and services. You will use your expertise to ensure the UX output meets usability, accessibility, design and quality standards.
• You’ll apply user-centred approaches to address complex design problems and provide solid design solutions. You will know when to conduct suitable analysis or evaluations to help define problems we want to solve.
• You’ll keep an eye on emerging trends within digital experiences and make sure we are always one step ahead in our design practice.

Essential Skills & Experience Required:

• Understand user experience and user centred design best practices and apply those practices to achieve user & business goals
• Advanced skills in prototyping and mapping tools (e.g. Axure, Omnigraffle, Sketch)
• Collaborative approach to creating engaging UX solutions both with business and Product Design and Development teams
• Comfortable communicating to a range of audiences, from presenting work to wider teams to defining the detailed UX with Designers and Developers
• Excellent analytical skills & Experienced in using analytics to drive decisions.
• Creative, with strong organisational and project management skills.
• Motivated self starter; problem solver, enjoys creating something new. Action orientated with a clear focus on delivery.
• Proven ability in dealing with and presenting to senior management teams
• Experience of working within a fast-paced and deadline-focused environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be eligible to work in the UK

Required Competencies:

• Customer focus – dedicated to finding new ways to delight the customer and drive sales, committed to increasing customer satisfaction, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
• Results focus – targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability
• Creativity/innovation – generates new ideas, lateral thinking, challenges the status quo, supports change, solves problems creatively
• Problem solving/judgment – recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, communicates decisions to others.
• Planning – develops realistic plans, sets goals, aligns plans with company goals, plans for and manages resources, creates contingency plans, coordinates/cooperates with others
• Initiative – tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development.
• Organisational effectiveness – operates within the organisation’s formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others’ roles and perspectives, can sell projects and get things done in a complex multi-level organization.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk by Friday 23^rd February 2018

Hiring Manager(s) – Simon Fry

HR Contact – Mouna Barratt/ Aisha Naushahi

Reports to:  Growth Editor

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m. Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

We are looking for an experienced social media professional to be responsible for the Evening Standard and Homes & Property strategies across all social media platforms.

Leading our social media team, you will be working closely with the site’s editors and data analysis team to grow our audiences in a 24/7 environment in London, the UK and globally.

Job Purpose:

You will lead and manage the social media team to improve online engagement and grow traffic across all content desks, focusing on curation, event planning and data analysis.

About you

• Minimum of two years’ social media experience in a digital news environment
• Strong familiarity with the ESHP brands and our coverage
• A keen sense of the topics and issues of the day and an appreciation of what type of content works well online
• Experience of collaborating with editors to grow audience both on site and across platforms
• Experience of being briefed by various stakeholders, to prioritise tasks and to work quickly and accurately under pressure
• Be comfortable in a fast-paced media environment and have the flexibility to work within a 24/7 rota, including evening and weekend shifts
• Be adept at reacting quickly to an ever-changing agenda and making the most of a large and varied inventory of content
• Have an understanding of the key role data analytics play in story selection and execution and familiarity with the tools which assist this

Key responsibilities

You will need to:

• Take responsibility for the social media team in achieving stated objectives in terms of traffic growth and online engagement
• Oversee all ESHP social platforms
• Communicate best practices for distributing, sharing and optimizing content
• Oversee posts across all social media platforms across our entire operation
• Work with Head of Video to develop a coherent and successful social video strategy
• Work closely with content heads to inform and advise on creating original and unique stories that will drive engagement on social media
• Develop methods of sourcing and publishing native social content
• Constantly monitor and register social media trends and new platforms/channels
• Reflect the broad range of content from across the site
• Ensure best-use and projection of images and video content on social media platforms
• Ensure that all content is of the highest possible standard and adheres to ‘house-brand’ requirements, with an awareness of the readers’ point of view
• Ensure legal and taste and decency obligations are adhered to
• Be able to listen to and take on board editors’ input while demonstrating ability to originate and execute own ideas
• Where necessary, work with commercial colleagues to give guidance on delivering campaigns.

Skills and experience

• Two years’ social media experience in fast-paced digital content environment
• Proven track record for increasing traffic, followers and engagement
• Extensive experience of driving community and engagement through social media
• Understanding of the importance of, and ability to make most of, data sciences available
• Experience of managing a team and the ability to work alongside and influence key stakeholders outside the immediate team
• Understanding of and ability to execute social media strategy across a widespread and busy newsroom
• Identify content with high-interest and traffic potential
• Experience collaborating with editors to grow and increase audience, both on site and across platforms.
• Ability to clearly communicate best practices within large editorial operations
• Sound knowledge of trends and tools for social media platforms
• A good eye for images and photographs
• Skilled writer and content creator
• Ability to manage a 24/7 social media rota

Expected Behaviours

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
• Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk.   Closing date is Friday 23^rd February 2018

Reports to:  Technical Lead

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m. Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

The Development team

Working as an integrated member of the development team, you will be working alongside other developers and project managers with differing skill sets and levels of aptitude, business stakeholders and the business as a whole to deliver development work which meets specifications and is delivered to the highest quality within defined timelines.

Job Purpose:

You will be responsible for day-to-day development of new feature requests delivered through Agile practices with implementation into production through BAU and Project work flows. You will play a key role in shaping the development practices, ensuring all completed works adhere to our standards of quality and performance.

About you

• You are an experienced developer, covering a wide range of dev ops tasks, with a passion for development and code
• You are an analytical thinker with strong problem solving skills
• You can see beyond a feature request into the deeper implications across the business
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You have attention to detail whilst remaining succinct
• You can explain tech issues to non tech colleagues

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and develop complex front-end applications in Javascript and relevant frameworks/libraries
• Maintain and develop complex backend features within a Drupal stack
• Integrate/implement frameworks, client APIs, libraries andSDKs
• Bring concepts to life from supplied UX/UI designs
• Work collaboratively as an integrated member of the team
• Participate with the team in agile planning, reviews and retrospectives
• Provide development input to estimation meetings for product sprints, backlog items and for new projects
• Ensure scope and technical specifications are sufficient to produce development works, and work with PM’s and other team members to enhance these where appropriate
• Identify areas for improvement and work with the team to implement appropriate agile practices
• Ensure code quality across releases is of a high standard
• Mentor junior members of the team where appropriate

Skills and experience

• High level of competency in front-end development, using languages/technologies such as:
  HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, React, Node
• High level of competency in PHP and Drupal development
• Experience working with GIT
• Experience with application management tools such as Jira or similar
• Experience of development operations, managing releases and release processes
• Experience with automated testing and manual testing is a plus
• Experience working in or with a publisher will be a significant benefit
• You will have a Degree (or equivalent qualification) in a computing related subject OR, equivalent business/working experience

Expected Behaviours

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
• Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk.   Closing date is Friday 23^rd February 2018

Reports to:  Digital Director, Editorial

About us

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m.  Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

A Growth Editor is needed to lead and deliver ESHP social media and SEO strategies. This role will oversee a small multi-disciplinary team in London and work closely with our data science team and senior editorial leaders to grow and engage audiences across all platforms in new and exciting ways.

We are looking for an innovative and results-driven leader who can use data to develop best practices and actionable insights. Reporting directly to the Director of Digital, Editorial, you will work closely with editors to set coverage priorities and expand the Evening Standard in London, the UK and internationally. You will be an expert in the digital media landscape, aware of new and emerging trends and bring significant experience within media, covering news, culture and/or entertainment. This is an important new role in a key growth area.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage our social media and SEO team, collaborating with editorial, data science, commercial, our in-house agency and senior leadership.
• Oversee all ESHP social media platforms including an overview of posts on all platforms across the entire operation.
• Communicate best practices for distribution, discovery and optimization of stories.
• Grow the ESHP audiences across platforms, with a focus on video.
• Create increased awareness of ESHP content and regular viewers across platforms.
• Be responsible for off-platform video distribution strategies, collaborating with relevant commercial partnership colleagues.
• Maintain ownership of the on-going development on the ESHP SEO strategy.
• Collaborate with internal video production team and/or London Live to manage Facebook Live programming.
• Develop strategic growth for video views across platforms.
• Develop new workflows for PAID, OWNED and EARNED media to keep ESHP at the forefront of our industry.
• Serve as the lead for social products and technical projects.
• Forecast and track ESHP KPIs and communicate to key stakeholders.

Essential skills and experience

• Substantial experience of successfully leading, managing and developing social media and/or SEO teams
• Strong familiarity with ESHP and our coverage
• Proven track record for increasing followers, engagement and traffic
• Excellent organisational and planning skills required to manage the daily/weekly/monthly publishing flow of an editorial team and global audience
• Experience collaborating with editors to grow and increase audience, both on site and across platforms.
• Proficiency in analysing complex issues and developing actionable insights and plans – using data from proprietary platform analytics (e.g. Facebook) and or third-party aggregate sources (e.g., CrowdTangle).
• Skilled writer and content creator
• Ability to clearly communicate best practices to large editorial operations
• Expert knowledge of trends and tools for social media platforms
• An understanding of the commercial risks and opportunities associated with audience growth.
• Experience of working in a dynamic fast-paced media environment.

Expected behaviours

Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.

Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues.  Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.

Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.

Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.

Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way.  Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk.   Closing date is 31^st May.

Reports to:  Digital News Editor

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m. Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

The ES Digital News team

The ES digital news team delivers breaking news and quality journalism covering politics, health, transport, education and crime. The team, of around a dozen reporters, delivers quality cross-platform content for a global urban audience.

We are looking for a talented journalist to join our team of news reporters to deliver original, high quality and engaging stories to our audience as the team and site expands.

Job Purpose:

You will write and publish news stories for one of the UK’s fastest growing online news brands. You will be part of a team of around 12 reporters covering breaking news, politics, crime, health, education and transport. Working to the news editor or their assistant, you will pitch original ideas as well as completing assignments handed to you. You will be expected to put together a complete package of words, pictures and video which will inform, entertain and engage the audience and satisfy the stated mission statement of the brand

About you

• Successful candidates will have a keen news sense and an appreciation of what type of content works well online
• Be comfortable in a fast-paced media environment and have the flexibility to work within a 24/7 rota, including evening and weekend shifts
• Be adept at producing fast and accurate copy on breaking stories
• Have an understanding of and practical ability to carry out picture and video editing skills.
• Have an understanding of the key role data analytics play in story selection and execution and familiarity with the tools which assist this

Key responsibilities and accountabilities 

• You will need to
• Deliver engaging and shareable stories that are relevant to our audience
• Generate original story ideas
• Produce error-free copy to tight deadlines
• Ensure best-use of images and video content
• Work closely with specialist colleagues in social, video, SEO, TV, data, print and other areas to generate and publish well-written and well-presented content
• Ensure that all content is of the highest possible standard and adheres to ‘house-brand’ requirements, with an awareness of the readers’ point of view.
• Ensure legal and taste and decency obligation are adhered to.
• Conduct research to uncover interesting and significant news/stories.
• Where necessary work with commercial colleagues to give guidance on delivering campaigns.
• Work across different sections and stand in for colleagues as and when required.

Skills and experience

• Ability to generate own news stories
• Producing fast and accurate copy on breaking stories
• Identify stories with high-interest and traffic potential
• Two years’ experience of working in a fast-paced newsroom
• Ability to write strong headlines
• A good understanding of SEO and social media strategies to ensure stories are seen by a wide audience
• A good eye for images and photographs
• Video editing experience
• NCTJ qualification or equivalent
• Flexibility to cover a 24/7 rota, including evenings and weekends
• Expert Understanding of the data in journalism for story discovery and story treatment.
• Good writer, communicator and visual story-teller.

Expected Behaviours

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
• Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to editorialjobs@standard.co.uk – Closing date is Friday 23^rd February 2018 .

Reports to: Video Executive Producer

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m. Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

The Evening Standard HP Core video team

You’ll be joining a growing video team at an exciting time of expansion and development, with an ambition to create best-in-class video content for both social and owned-and-operated platforms.

Job Purpose:

You will be one of four video journalists sourcing, creating and publishing video content for Standard.co.uk and associated platforms – with the aim of increasing video views, extending brand reach and building critical reputation.

About you

• 2-3 years’ experience in a news or video production environment
• Strong news sense with a creative approach to storytelling
• Creative, fast and efficient with a no-fuss attitude
• An active interest in online/multi-platform video content
• Willingness to work a 5/7 shift pattern, including at weekends or occasionally unsociable hours
• Willingness to travel when required

Key responsibilities

• Spotting and sourcing news video clips with potential to drive traffic in news verticals
• Generating & pitching ideas for explainers and original video content, taking into account desk requirements and video analytics data
• Producing, shooting, and editing high-quality video content for Standard.co.uk and associated social platforms, across a range of verticals including both lifestyle features and news
• Fast-turnaround editing of news clips, third party footage in response to the daily news agenda
• Creation of original graphics- and archive-led explainers around news and lifestyle subjects
• Crewing and leading multi-camera studio shoots for pre-records and livestreams
• Publishing and embedding video content to Standard.co.uk using our in-house CMS
• Monitoring and responding to video & website analytics to ensure optimised placement of content

Skills and experience

• Self-shooting video to a professional standard using DSLRs
• Strong understanding of composition, lighting, audio, shooting for the edit and visual narrative.
• Ability to self-direct shoots when required, and also to work as part of a larger crew on occasion
• Editing to a high standard with speed and efficiency using Premier Pro and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Some knowledge of After Effects and Audition desirable.
• Production skills including research, setting up shoots and managing associated administration (release forms, call sheets, etc.)
• People skills and communication: able to liaise sensitively and appropriately with contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds, ranging from sensitive contributors to high-profile individuals.
• Experience working in a fast-paced newsroom with proven ability to deliver to pressing deadlines and remain calm under pressure.
• Familiarity with news wires and clipping services, and ability to respond to news requests quickly and efficiently.
• Full knowledge of media law, in particular copyright in relation to third-party content
• Familiarity with the latest trends in online video, including but not limited to social and multiplatform publishing.
• Experience with content management systems, video publishing platforms and video analytics.
• Writing clear, concise copy at short notice, and ability to write longer articles around video content.
• Understanding of best practices in content production for multi-platform distribution.
• Experience with paid and commercial video content

Expected Behaviours

• Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
• Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
• Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
• Responsive Delivery – Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

To apply, please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk. Closing date is Friday 1st June 2018