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 social producer (news, features, opinion) to create and repurpose video, photography, text, and graphics content for the Guardian across social media. With a focus on Tik Tok and Instagram, you’ll take 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 turn our world-class journalism into scroll-stopping content.

This is a full-time 12-month fixed-term contract or internal staff secondment 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) with the aim of engaging and informing a global audience.
• Pitch ideas for social videos and other formats, in line with audience needs and editorial priorities
• Script and produce original social videos and other formats as required by the social platforms editor
• Contribute towards the planning, production, publishing and archiving of content across social channels.
• Maintain high standards of video verification, fact-checking and contextual accuracy across all published content to ensure it meets the Guardian’s editorial guidelines
• Ensure social posts adhere to the Guardian’s design and work closely with motion graphics designers as well as independently within templates
• Work closely with other teams to share resources and execute collaborative multimedia projects
• Monitor, analyse and measure social engagement as required, across all channels, and optimise content (title, images, graphics, and other elements) in line with performance
• Keep up to date with the latest social media developments, especially best practice off-platform

• Understanding of how to make text, photos, graphics and video work together on social media
• Experience of scripting, producing and editing videos for social media from start to finish using Adobe Premiere.
• Strong writing skills with a flair for summarising long, complex information into engaging and concise copy
• Experience 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
• 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.
• Journalistic training including knowledge of media law and OSINT is an advantage
• Experience working in a newsroom or similar environment
• Knowledge of After Effects or other graphics software, and ability to shoot video a strong advantage, but not essential
• 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 application and…