Personal Assistant to the Editor London, England
Job description
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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
The Role: You will be responsible for supporting the Editor (TLS) in day to day activities. Operating in a highly professional and well-organised way with excellent communication skills. This is a busy and demanding role involving a very high degree of organisation and anticipating the needs of the Editor. You will be used to working in a fast paced environment and be able to cope with an ever-changing workload. You will provide PA support with diary/travel and meeting management, making decisions and constantly thinking on your feet.
Day to day you will:
Being the first point of contact for contributors, collating the information necessary for creating their account, answering queries, ensuring timely payment and managing the relationship with the contributions department in Peterborough.
Complex diary management, schedule meetings, prepare agendas and take minutes.
Ensure timely arrival for meetings.
Travel arrangements and detailed travel itineraries.
Liaise with Editor’s offices, Exec teams and TLS team.
Manage relationships with external partners/ clients.
Identify deadlines and ensure these are prioritised appropriately.
Prepare and deliver reports.
Expense processing.
Ad-hoc project coordination.
General administrative duties.
What we are looking for from you:
Experienced PA with excellent communication skills and good use of English language and grammar.
Previous experience of supporting an exec member would be an advantage.
Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships at all levels.
Ability to work on your own initiative and execute ad-hoc tasks as required.
Accustomed to being exposed to sensitive information and maintaining confidentiality.
Knowledge of Google Drive, including Google Docs preferable.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.
In addition we also offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
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.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
