Video Editor, Style (1 Year FTC)

The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

Your Role: The video department is looking for a proactive and creative Video Editor to manage the editing of all long-form and short-form video for The Sunday Style YouTube channel and website. The ideal candidate will have brilliant previous knowledge of editing similar lifestyle content from interior house tours to beauty and fashion series and celebrity interviews. You will work alongside the Head of Style Video to deliver four films a month and multiple cutdowns for YouTube shorts and The Times social channels. Our ideal editor will have the ability to cover both editorial style videos and videos sold commercially by our in-house team.

Day to day you will:

• Manage all of the video edits for The Sunday Times Style YouTube channel.
• Liaise with industry DOPs to collect footage and take it into edit.
• Work quickly to deliver each edit within a tight turnaround.
• Manage editing for commercial clients and work with their feedback to match their strong house guidelines.
• Work alongside our Audience Team to ensure they have all assets needed for publishing.
• Work closely with the Production Team to manage your workload and edit schedule around constant shoot bookings.
• Edit both from the central London office and home.

What we’re looking for from you:

• A strong background in lifestyle editing for YouTube is a must.
• Can edit multiple projects at once to different tight deadlines.
• You can take initiative and be creative with editing styles and narratives.
• Work to constructive feedback from Video heads before sign off.
• Full capability to edit in Premiere Pro.
• Have a great understanding of GFX, motion design and upload requirements for YouTube.
• The ability to edit with a social mindset and pull out viral moments for our Times social channels.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills when working in a team.
• Good understanding of 'The Sunday Times Style' as a magazine and the type of talent that is featured and how best to showcase them through an edit.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 13 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like-minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:

• 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 including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times.
• Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.