Social Media Producer

Job Description

Social Media Producer, 12 Month FTC TalkTV: TalkTV launched on 25 April 2022 creating a major new channel, available to everyone across the UK and delivering a bold new voice in current affairs, debate and opinion. Piers Morgan, one of the most recognisable broadcasters in the world, was the first signing, delivering Piers Morgan Uncensored, a primetime show which promises to be a fearless forum for lively debate and agenda-setting interviews - and has already over a million YouTube subscribers.

Meanwhile, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tom Newton Dunn provides straight and balanced news with The News Desk, Jeremy Kyle delivers pun after pun and lively debate on Jeremy Kyle Live and the legendary Sharon Osbourne is just one of the famous faces discussing the day’s issues on The Talk. Drawing together world-class talent across News UK, TalkTV broadcasts from state-of-the-art studios at The News Building in London Bridge and available live or on-demand, on linear and connected TV and on any personal device. TalkTV broadcasts 24/7 on Sky Channel 526, Virgin Media Channel 627, Freeview Channel 237 and Freesat Channel 217, as well as via connected TV services, smart devices, the TalkTV app and at talk.tv.

Your role:

News UK are looking for a multi-skilled Social Media Producer to work with big talent across TalkTV’s daytime and primetime evening shows. Whether you’re live-tweeting through Sharon’s debate on The Talk, making Vanessa Feltz go viral on Instagram or planning the latest Piers Morgan Uncensored promo with our creatives, this is a great opportunity for those who thrive in a role that’s fast-paced and varied.

Day to day you will:

You’ll be publishing content onsocial media, YouTube and the TalkTV website across this exciting new channel, working closely with the video and TV teams to drive engagement and get everyone talking about our shows online.

What we are looking for from you:

• Experience running social media/YouTube channels/websites, preferably for TV programmes

• Excellent spelling and grammar

• Passion for increasing online engagement and followers

• A keen interest in news and current affairs

• Confidence using video editing tools and web/social media analytics

• Flexibility regarding working hours - while the role is Mon-Fri, sometimes it is normal office hours, sometimes covering a live show in the evening
  

We are News Broadcasting:Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous

  Pension

  scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

  
  

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

  
  
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
  
  

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

  
  
• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
  
  
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
  
  

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

  
  

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

  
  

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.