Wanted: The Best Deputy Editor in the Business

OVERVIEW

Are you an authority on pop culture, music, food, drink, events and city life? Are you adept at putting your thoughts on those things into words that people can’t help but read? Are you a total pro at all things digital?

Concrete Playground is currently seeking a skilled, experienced journalist/editor to join its Sydney team as deputy editor, and if you answered in the affirmative to all of the above, you may just be the person we’re looking for.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Working closely with the editor-in-chief from our Redfern, Sydney office, you'll come up with story ideas, write articles and commission work from a team of freelancers. Fastidious subediting will be a pillar of your day, as will making images, text, video and links work together as a happy whole.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading Concrete Playground's news and features content across Australia and New Zealand.
• Management and growth of Concrete Playground’s various social media channels.
• Assisting with the planning and execution of Concrete Playground’s editorial strategy.
• Creation of varied written and multimedia content.
• Management of freelance news contributors across five cities.

REQUIREMENTS

• A university degree
• At least one year's experience in the online media environment.
• A demonstrated ability to write smart, funny, popular articles quickly, and to come up with even more ideas than you can write.
• Solid subediting skills and ability to work with a style guide.
• Experience with social media management and strategy.
• Knowledge of SEO and basic HTML.
• Experience working with a content management system (preferably WordPress).
• A good eye for images and skills with image production (preferably Photoshop).
• Expertise on the topics of music and pop culture, though you might also be strong in: technology, design, sustainability, current affairs, fashion, lifestyle, travel, food & drink, film, the arts and local cultural life.
• Some photography or videography skills.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your cover letter, CV and links to 3-4 relevant online writing samples to Concrete Playground’s editor-in-chief, Rima Sabina Aouf, at [email protected]

WHO WE ARE

Concrete Playground is an online weather vane pointing readers to the cultural tornadoes that are just about to hit. Our writers, editors and contributors have a constant ear to the under and above (but never middle) ground of the creative worlds of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Ideally, applicants will be pretty familiar with us and what we're about.