Head of Planning

The Telegraph needs an experienced journalist to co-ordinate newsroom output across all departments on non-reactive stories. This will involve liaising with multiple departments and ensuring that those in charge of the Telegraph's homepage and app have a clear and consistent view of the pipeline of features, investigations, interviews and comment pieces that are due to be published. This will also permit optimal promotion and distribution and ensure that our coverage is comprehensive and coherent rather than contradictory or duplicative.

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with commissioning departments across the newsroom to ensure there is a consolidated list of upcoming exclusive content.
• Liaise with Performance to understand data around subjects, writers, stories and consumption by time. Use this knowledge to inform the overall plan.
• Maintain the calendar of news and events to identify topics of interest to our readers and potential subscribers and ensure desks plan effectively in advance.
• Identify seasonal hotspots where there is an opportunity to serve up new or evergreen content to drive acquisitions and retention.
• Work directly with heads of commissioning and publishing across the news, sport, business, features, lifestyle, comment and money desks to co-ordinate ideas for covering big events and special projects.
• Create publishing plans that ensure we have comprehensive, varied and complementary coverage of significant events that does not duplicate across commissioning desks and is published at the right time, in the right format to serve both subscribers and non-subscribers.
• Challenge heads of department around their planning and longer-term ideas to ensure a constant flow of the highest-quality pieces from all corners of the newsroom.
• Track delivery of promised content from departments to ensure we hit the publishing schedule.
• Work with the off-platform promotion teams (social, video and newsletters) to ensure there is enough content to drive acquisitions and manage publishing to target key audiences off-platform.
• Work with the editorial insight team to produce feedback on how plans performed and suggest ways to improve.

Impeccable news sense and editorial judgment, and a deep understanding of the touchpoints for Telegraph readers. Exceptional organisational skills, and the ability to co-ordinate and prioritise across multiple departments. Outstanding communication skills with the ability to influence others. A deep understanding of what constitutes premium digital storytelling and a plethora of ideas to assist commissioners and publishers. Understanding of data and an ability to apply it to planning, inform commissioning and drive promotion. Experience of and exposure to different types of news and features content and what makes this successful. Experience of planning and executing change in a fast-moving environment. Experience in putting together packages around large events. Command of the platforms on which The Telegraph publishes, and their audiences.

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development:

With support from your manager and colleagues, you'll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion:

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government's Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.