AddressRole purpose and overview
A key role as part of the award-winning Telegraph Women’s Sport team.
The role involves producing women’s sport content in a digital-first capacity, and will include traditional reporter disciplines like coverage of live events, news gathering, feature and interview writing, opinion/analysis pieces and investigations.
With the Olympics and Paralympics this year as well as the European Championship and Rugby World Cup in 2025, it is an exciting time for women’s sport and the role will involve covering a wide range of sports.
Key responsibilities
- Working with the sports desk to set the agenda in women’s sport across a seven-day rota
- Generating unique and interesting feature ideas to help engage readers and maximise digital traffic
- News and match reporting
- Writing engaging news, features, interviews and analysis
- Attendance at events and regular contribution of off-diary content
- Versatility to cover a range of sports
- Producing content across all Telegraph platforms, including social media
- Ensuring fast and accurate filing of copy
Key skills
- Previous journalistic experience of writing sports content for a newspaper or website
- Strong news sense and expertise in developing stories on digital and print platforms
- Confidence writing news, match reports, features, analysis and comment
- Ability to engage with audiences and build communities on different platforms
- Previous experience covering women’s sport
- An understanding of digital storytelling and optimisation of content through social media and SEO across a range of platforms would be advantageous
- A broad contacts book in women’s sport is desirable
Our benefits
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.
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