Digital Health – a news, events and network business focused on healthcare IT and digitisation in the UK, and in the NHS specifically – is seeking a news editor.

The Role

Working as part of a small editorial team consisting of Digital Health’s editor, its news reporter and two or three part-time freelance editorial staffers, the news editor will take responsibility for all news output.

The role involves hands-on reporting as well as editorial leadership and sub-editing. The post holder will report into Digital Health’s editor and will line manage the team’s news reporter.

The successful candidate is likely to have several years’ journalism, communications or content experience. You may be someone who has already held an editing role, or someone who is looking to step up into one from a reporting job.

While specialist knowledge of IT and digitisation, healthcare, or of the NHS is helpful, it is absolutely not a pre-requisite. What we’re primarily looking for is someone with sparkling editorial and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the news list and news schedule, with three stories published each week day. Maintain the news list, with details of topic, assigned writer, deadline, sub-editor, planned publication date. Be able to maintain the schedule even when certain stories don’t materialise or are delayed.
• Line manage the team’s news reporter. Assist the news reporter’s continued development, offer support and constructive feedback, and guide work.
• Source stories and build contacts. Working with other members of the Digital Health editorial team, identify stories of likely interest to our audience and key contacts and opinion leaders.
• Assign stories and manage deadlines. Be fully responsible for assigning stories to members of the team, setting clear deadlines, and helping ensure those deadlines are met.
• Write stories. Write high quality news stories, tailored to the audience and delivered on deadline.
• Sub-edit stories. Sub-edit news stories written by other editorial colleagues, recognising issues and correcting them as needed.
• Publish content via our content management system (WordPress). Upload content and images, tag correctly, and schedule publication.
• Promote Digital Health content. Draft and publish social media posts; support the production of weekly newsletters.
• Support the news reporter with the Digital Health podcast as required. Potentially appear as a guest or host and/or support on development of topics and recruitment of guests.
• Support the editor with non-news content as required, including opinion and commercially backed editorial content. Potentially edit, commission, or project manage such content.
• Work collaboratively with fellow members of the editorial team. Support colleagues and share knowledge as required, to ensure every member of the team can work to the best of their ability.
• Work collaboratively with teams within the business. Share knowledge with colleagues, and gain knowledge from other teams to support the work of the news team.
• Represent Digital Health at events, meetings and press conferences. This notably includes at our annual conferences Digital Health Rewired and Digital Health Summer Schools.

Person Specification

Essential

• Superior writing and editing skills coupled with strong news judgement, honed in journalism and/or communications or content settings
• Excellent organisational and scheduling skills, juggling multiple deadlines simultaneously while maximising the effective use of one own’s time as well as that of editorial colleagues
• Ability to quickly edit copy, spotting and correcting any issues with grammar, spelling, punctuation, house style and accuracy
• Proven ability to maintain regular lines of communication with editorial colleagues, even when working remotely
• Comfortable with feeding back to writers about edits, offering explanations and constructive support where required
• Demonstrable ability to build strong working connections with a range of internal and external colleagues and contacts, through both virtual and face to face meetings
• Happy to be hands-on, lending support to colleagues as part of a small editorial team
• Interest in healthcare and in IT, and the desire to continuously build and refine knowledge and contacts in these areas

Desirable

• Prior experience of formal line management, or of informal management or mentorship of junior colleagues
• Experience in using content management systems
• Experience of working on non-news content, specifically features, opinion piece and commercially-backed content
• Experience of writing on complex topics or sectors
• Knowledge or experience of healthcare and/or IT

About Digital Health

Digital Health – part of CloserStill Media – is a news, events and network business focused on healthcare IT in the UK, and in the NHS specifically.

Our online news service publishes around three stories each day, keeping UK and NHS digital healthcare leaders informed on all the latest developments in the sector. It also includes features-based content and opinion, including sponsored content.

We run two large events each year. Digital Health Rewired takes place each March in Birmingham and is the UK’s largest digital conference and exhibition. Digital Health Summer Schools, held each year at a UK university, is an educational and networking event for digital health leaders.

Our three networks, meanwhile, bring together current and aspiring digital leaders. They connect chief clinical information officers (CCIOs), chief information officers (CIOs) and chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) from across healthcare, most notably the English NHS.

Together, our activities make us a key source of insight and intelligence for those working in digital healthcare.

How To Apply

To apply, send your CV and cover letter to Nnenna Kalu n.kalu@closerstillmedia.com

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