Deputy Editor, RA Magazine (Mat Cover) in London

Please note that this role is being offered on a 12 month fixed term contract as it is maternity cover. This is a part-time role working 32 hours a week (4 days).

About RA Magazine

Published four times a year for Friends of the Royal Academy, RA Magazine explores the art on view both inside and outside the RA each season. Including insightful essays, interviews with artists, thought-provoking opinion pieces, comprehensive listings, and previews of shows across the UK and abroad, RA Magazine brings the Royal Academy and the wider art world into readers' homes.

About this Role

The RA Magazine team is currently looking to appoint a Deputy Editor to join us on a fixed term contract basis. The Deputy Editor will support the delivery of the RA Magazine, ensuring it’s delivered on schedule and on a sustainable financial basis, always maintaining the high standards readers expect. Supporting the Editor, the Deputy Editor helps commission the magazine, conceiving original editorial ideas and liaising with writers. The Deputy Editor will manage the editorial side of the production process of the RA Magazine, encompassing scheduling, workflow tracking and liaison with freelance contributors, the Sub-Editor and other key points of contact. Other duties include copy-editing text, picture editing and writing articles both long and short ranging from exhibition previews to artist interviews. This is a varied and exciting role that engages across all areas of the magazine, the Royal Academy and the world of art and artists.

About You

To be considered for this role, you will have substantial editorial experience within print publishing, with a strong track record of managing editorial content from commissioning through to publication. The successful candidate will be an all-rounder, possessing journalistic flair as well as demonstrable in-depth knowledge of art history and contemporary art, with the ability to identify engaging stories and communicate confidently with artists, writers and industry professionals. Approachable and empathetic, you will be able to forge strong working relationships with colleagues and external contacts and will have excellent organisational and communications skills.

The Company

The RA dates way back to 1768 when a group of artists and architects persuaded King George III to help them to ‘establish a society for promoting the Art of Design'. The original academy, in Pall Mall, was less than 10 meters long. Since then, there have been many changes, though the RA’s core purpose of bringing art and design to a broad audience and championing art and artists still holds true. Today we are a contemporary art organisation hosting internationally acclaimed exhibitions and through investment in employee training and development, with courses such as Unconscious Bias, LGBTQ+ Awareness, Bystander, and Mental Health First Aid training, we are striving to foster a safe space for everyone through positive action. We also have Employee Network Groups, Ways In Groups, and an Employee Council so every employee has a voice and a way to feel heard by colleagues through the CEO. The RA is truly a unique place, both as an attraction to our visitors, but also as a workplace. Our people are at the heart of all we do, and we support a broad and inspiring mix of departments; from exhibitions, curators, art handlers, researchers, publishers, and digital to schools and education, visitor welcome, fundraisers, and corporate support.

The Benefits

• Exhibitions: Reciprocal Agreements with galleries across the UK
• Enhanced Pension: Generous employer contributions
• Enhanced Holiday: 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing: Access to a virtual GP Service and Mental Health First Aiders
• Agile Working: The opportunity to work flexibly
• RA Staff Council: Where your views are heard and listened to
• Employee Clubs: Football, Staff Choir and more