Senior Social Producer; News, Features, Opinion

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are looking for a senior social producer (news, features, opinion) to take the editorial lead on creating content for the Guardian across social media, overseeing and refining team output and taking our journalism to new audiences off-platform in creative and engaging ways.

From hard-hitting investigations on housing and elections to engaging explainers on technology and culture, you'll lead on turning our world-class journalism into scroll-stopping content.

This is a full-time, permanent contract with a 9-day fortnight working pattern and regular weekend working.

• Create written and visual content for the Guardian's social platforms (primarily Instagram and Tik Tok), taking the lead on projects with the aim of engaging and informing a global audience.
• On occasion, commission and supervise daily news items and make final calls on videos and posts when required.
• Pitch ideas for social videos, in line with audience needs and editorial priorities
• Review and edit scripts and video ensuring accuracy, quality and editorial standards and giving clear, constructive feedback
• Build strong relationships with senior newsroom stakeholders and external partners
• Make independent editorial decisions on story treatment, structure, and angles
• Maintain exceptional standards of video verification, fact-checking and contextual accuracy across all published content to ensure it meets the Guardian's editorial guidelines
• Step in to refine or fix pieces as required before publication
• Make confident editorial decisions on verification, copyright and legal risk, working with legal and rights teams where required
• Use analytics to evaluate performance and refine social video strategy
• Help establish and maintain best practice, visual style, and tone of voice for social promotion, posts and videos

• Deep understanding of how to make text, photos, graphics and video work together on social media
• Proven track record of producing, shooting and editing videos for social media, with authoritative knowledge of industry-standard video equipment and post-production software.
• Strong writing skills with a flair for summarising long, complex information into engaging and concise copy
• Ability to find and pitch original story ideas and concepts, with a demonstrable track record of creative and engaging storytelling across social platforms
• Demonstrable experience of working with all major social platforms, underpinned by a nuanced understanding of each platform's unique ecosystem, and how to optimise content performance for each platform
• Deep understanding of the specific needs of social media audiences
• Familiarity with content management systems and analytics of all major social media platforms
• Strong design skills with ability to produce static social content using Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Ideally you will have a demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to the role.

We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.

We operate in a hybrid environment working at least three days a week from our offices in King's Cross in London.

Job share applications are welcome. If you are keen to apply jointly with someone else as a job share, you should make a single…