Acting Features Editor, Grazia

The focus of your role:
 

We’re looking for a dynamic and experienced Acting Features Editor to oversee our smart, conversation-starting features content across print, digital and social. This is an exciting opportunity to join a creative team with ambitious plans!
 

Please note this is a fixed term contract covering maternity leave. 
 

What you’ll do:

• Oversee the main features section in the magazine – in addition to features slots in 10 Hot Stories and regular pages including Life Skills and The View – and manage all features forward planning. 
• Generate timely, original ideas that deliver compelling coverlines. This encompasses zeitgeisty trend pieces, international news, in-depth reports into the issues that matter, emotive first-person essays, topical talking points hooked on social media and pop culture moments, and relatable features that speak to the concerns of the Grazia reader across wellbeing, politics, relationships, work and money. 
• Commission a diverse range of writers, including sought-after names, and expand our pool of contributors. Provide detailed briefs and edit copy to a high standard and tight deadlines.
• Secure exclusive interviews with politicians, authors, broadcasters, and other high-profile individuals. 
• Organise monthly features meetings for print, plus regular visuals meetings with the Art & Picture teams. 
• Contribute ideas for our daily news conference, including traffic-driving digital stories, engaging social media posts, content for our parenting platform The Juggle, and enticing longs reads for our Apple News+ channel. 
• Commission and edit online copy as part of a rota with other senior editors, ensuring stories are optimised for search, legally sound, and in the Grazia tone.
• Manage the Staff Writer, developing their skills and prioritising their workload. 

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience running a features desk or editorial section for a national publication. 
• A thorough understanding of the Grazia reader and brand, and an enthusiasm for the wide range of topics we cover. 
• Excellent editing skills and a highly organised approach to multiple demands and deadlines. 
• A collaborative mind set and the confidence to problem solve under pressure. 

Closing Date: Sunday 19th January

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 25 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.