Editor, Muddy Stilettos Sussex

 

Description:

This is a brilliant opportunity for a creative, dynamic journalist to help shape and drive Muddy Stilettos’ continued growth and reputation in the prestigious Muddy Sussex.

 

**Please note: you MUST be a national journalist or national content editor, and live in Sussex to apply for this post**

 

Key Areas of Responsibility

These include:

· Writing, researching and editing reviews and features

· Idea generation for editorial and sales opportunities

· Newsletter generation

· Growing readership and followers across the site and social

· Social media promotion across IG, fb, TT

· Assisting the editor-in-chief where required

· Representing the Muddy brand across the region

 

PERSONAL QUALITIES

· Urbane, cosmopolitan with great taste

· An excellent local knowledge of Buckinghamshire or Oxfordshire including the best local businesses and the best of what’s on

· Charming, fun and unpretentious – you can get along with everyone

· Organised and good under pressure - able to reliably hit deadlines

· Positive, energetic and enthusiastic

· A strong team player – we are a strictly no-diva company!

· Car essential

 

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

· Senior experience on national magazines and/or broadsheet titles as an editor or writer

· Brilliant writing - accessible, witty, down-to-earth

· A strong visual eye for what makes a stylish image

· A full understanding of how PRs, sponsorship and advertising work together

· Comfortable with Adestra or similar platform

· Knowledge of Wordpress is an advantage

· Ability to work comfortably across social platforms, particularly IG

· Ability to multi-task and work at pace

PERKS

· Regular press reviews (theatre, pubs, restaurants, hotels, spas, beauty treatments)

· Overseas press trips with our international Travel section