Journo Resources is a social enterprise that makes the media look more like it should. We’re looking for a part-time deputy editor to help us realise this goal and push the site forward in 2023 and beyond.

This will be a senior and key role in the organisation, deputising for our director and editor. You’ll work across all areas of the business and will be equally passionate about ensuring our financial sustainability as our editorial output.

The Role

This role is broadly split across three areas, of which we expect editorial to take up the most time, but there is room to grow within the role.

Editorial

You’ll take the lead on running our advice section and other areas of the website, with a focus on high-quality original content. This will involve:

• Commissioning and editing weekly features from our trainee journalist, fellows, and freelancers — you’ll be editing for both structure and grammar, helping them to put together stand-out, portfolio pieces;
• Working with our admin assistant to make sure our lists and other resources are updated on a weekly basis;
• Sub-editing our newsletters for grammar and style;
• Pitching and writing long-form, original features of your own, every one to two months — we focus on quality, not quantity;
• Optimising pieces for SEO and coming up with SEO-focused ideas — our approach to SEO is making high-quality journalism that reaches people looking for help;
• Putting together monthly insight round-ups of how our content has performed and suggestions of how to improve.

Social Media

You’ll help to drive forward our social media strategy, helping us to reach even more people and support them better:

• Work with our trainee journalist and director across Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Discord. Currently, we tend to split the accounts between us, but we all feed into a wider strategy.

Finances & Funding

You’ll help to support our director in pushing our path to financial sustainability. This may include:

• Approaching and pitching Journo Resources to other organisations for editorial partnerships;
• Taking the lead with existing clients as a point of contact, writing editorial content, running partnership events, and writing campaign reports;
• Working with our membership freelancer and director to increase sign-ups;
• Assisting our director in funding and grant applications.

About You

We’re looking for someone with at least three years of experience working as a professional journalist. This is a senior position in our team that involves independent working, management of others, and experience working on original stories. As such, this position isn’t suitable for entry-level candidates.

This could be the job for you if the points below ring a bell. We absolutely don’t expect you to necessarily hit all of these points, but you will need to rise to them as the job progresses. In short, we’d rather hear from you than not!

• You’re passionate about helping to increase access to the journalism industry and believe in our mission;
• You have experience in coming up with original, well-researched stories, based on interviews, analysis, and research and take a quality-over-quantity approach;
• You have experience in editing and commissioning other writers;
• You’re able to pick out grammar and structural errors with a high attention to detail;
• You know your way around all things social, having previously worked on accounts for yourself or another publication or brand;
• You’re well-versed in digital tools such as WordPress, Google Drive, Slack and various analytics programmes;
• You’re happy to muck in with a range of tasks – we’re a tiny team, so things may crop up outside the description above;
• This is a remote role, so you’ll need to be able to work independently, keep yourself motivated, and manage your time effectively.
• You’re familiar with Journo Resources’ work and feel like you understand our style and tone of voice.

This may be the role if you’re a freelancer looking for some stable income, or perhaps if you already have a part-time job at another organisation.

The Admin Details

Turns out there’s a lot of stuff you need to know when you’re hiring someone. Here are the main details:

• This is initially a fixed-term contract for six months. Following a successful six months, this will become a permanent role. We hope to also be able to expand hours in the future, but this depends on future funding. As a team, we’ll work as hard as possible to make this happen.
• We believe the media shouldn’t just be tied to London (and we also don’t have an office), so you can be based anywhere in the UK as you will be working remotely. You’ll need to have the right to work in the UK, as we don’t have a VISA sponsor agreement.
• You’ll work three days a week. Ideally, this would be Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday, but we’re open to hearing what you need!
• Our team generally works from 10am-6pm, but again, we’re happy to discuss this if you’re an early riser, have childcare commitments, or anything else.
• This role will report to our director and founder, Jem Collins and you’ll work with our second director Jack. You’ll take on some management responsibilities for our admin assistant, trainee journalist, membership freelancer, and fellows.
• The salary is £30,000pa full-time equivalent. This works out at £18,000pa at the pro-rata rate. This is £1,500 per month.
• Everyone at Journo Resources gets unlimited holiday with a minimum you must use — we all need a break. The full-time equivalent is 25 days plus the eight English bank holidays — a total of 33 days. Pro-rata this is a minimum of 19.8 days a year. More is available on a fair use policy.
• Everyone is offered the chance to join our pension scheme, regardless of the minimum opt-in age. We contribute at a rate of 3 per cent.
• You will also get free access to all our Journo Resources career development resources, including professional development events and external training.

Our Commitment To Hiring

Our previous data shows us that people tend to rush applications within the first few days. Please don’t panic – take your time. Here’s why:

• We look at every single job application and don’t start shortlisting until the job has closed. It doesn’t matter if you’re the first person to apply or the last.
• Everyone who applies will receive an email to let them know the outcome of their applications, with feedback on why it was or wasn’t progressed. So if you haven’t heard from us, don’t worry, it just means we haven’t looked yet.
• We always keep job applications open until at least the closing date listed. We will never close a job early, so you’re able to plan ahead with your application.

We’re an organisation that’s committed to making journalism look more like the people it serves and are keen to hear from people from all backgrounds. We’re particularly keen to hear from people who are underrepresented in journalism, including but not limited to: people of colour, disabled, trans, and working-class applicants.

Applications close at 11.59pm on July 30. Please apply using the form below — if you have any problems or require different methods of submission please contact hello@journoresources.org.uk as soon as possible before the closing date. We are unable to accept any applications after the closing date but will make sure to provide feedback to everyone who applies.

The process for applying for this job includes a short form to express interest, successful candidates will be then put forward to interview.