Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary

About the Role
The Telegraph’s Features team provides original, entertaining and inspiring content for our readers. In this role, you will work across the features desk to write features, interviews and provide colour reporting. Working in a fast-paced, news-driven environment, you’ll be confident in managing both tight daily deadlines and longer lead pieces. You will be able to spot exclusives and opportunities for agenda-setting content that will create national talking points and push the Telegraph ahead of its competitors. Curiosity in the news agenda, alongside a network of key contacts, sources and experts, will be essential to ensure that you have a constant supply of ideas.

Key Responsibilities
Providing all types of high-quality content - from quick turnaround reported features and ghost-written articles to on the ground news colour pieces, richly-researched long reads, investigations and big interviews. Highly engaged with the news agenda and confident in pitching feature angles on breaking news stories and wider trends, as well as zeitgeisty ideas that break new ground. Able to deliver clean copy to tight deadlines. Constantly seeking out original ideas for features content. Building a strong network of contacts to secure exclusives, ensuring that the Telegraph is ahead of the competition. Liaising with teams such as visual journalism and video to explore innovative ways to tell stories.

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 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 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 require reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process, please make us aware.

Experience
A proven track record of reporting and writing short and long stories, news features, interviews, dispatches, and vox pops to tight deadlines. Good investigative and persuasion skills. Flexibility and availability to travel at short notice.

About You
Highly engaged with the news agenda and confident in pitching feature angles on breaking news stories and wider trends. Ability to spot exclusives and agenda-setting content. Strong network of contacts, sources and experts. Understand what drives digital engagement in a subscription-based organisation. A good understanding of the Telegraph's tone and audience.

Qualifications
Full knowledge of media law is required.