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Join New Scientist Limited as an Engagement Editor, focusing on data-driven editorial strategy to enhance digital content across platforms. This role involves optimizing content for SEO, analyzing performance metrics, and collaborating with editorial teams to engage readers. Ideal for a junior candidate eager to grow in the world of digital journalism and science communication.
Workplace type: Hybrid 3 days per week in office
Job Introduction
We’re looking for a data-driven, strategic editorial thinker to join our audience team as Engagement Editor. Working across all our digital platforms, including web, app, Apple News and social media, the right candidate will be data literate, with the ability to translate data insights into effective editorial strategy.
This role is ideal for someone junior looking to make their mark in editorial SEO and is central to executing New Scientist’s editorial strategy, helping us to become a truly digital-first publisher.
The right candidate will be responsible for curating and optimizing New Scientist’s homepage and digital content to drive user engagement and online growth. They will be comfortable with:
To apply, please submit a CV and a cover letter briefly highlighting relevant experience.
Main Responsibilities
Person Specification
Required experience
Required skills and behaviours
Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:
Plus many other benefits….
New Scientist is a magazine brand for the insatiably curious, asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human. From artificial intelligence to climate change, the latest innovations in health to the mysteries of quantum physics and the human mind, New Scientist covers the ideas and discoveries that matter.
Since our publication was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”, it has expanded to include newsletters, videos, podcasts, courses, holidays and live events. Our headquarters are in London, UK, and we also have staff in the US and Australia.
New Scientist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applications to New Scientist will receive due consideration regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
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