SEO Editor

SEO Editor

Location: The i Paper HQ - High Street Kensington, London

Position: Permanent

About the Role

The i Paper is seeking an SEO editor to join our growing audience team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the newsroom to shape and optimise our journalism for a search audience, as well as writing content to reach The i Paper’s audience and expand our subscriber base.

Reporting to the Head of SEO, you’ll be driving search audience growth through collaboration with the team and wider editorial staff, as well as producing high-quality, optimised journalism in a varied role. The ideal candidate will be energetic and keen to develop their career in a fast-paced newsroom environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with editorial teams to commission and optimise stories for search products, including providing engaging headlines
• Lead SEO optimisation on The i Paper’s webpages
• Oversee our evergreen strategy within the SEO team and across the newsroom
• Lead our attribution strategy
• Provide the newsroom with reports on its output through an SEO lens, using analytics tools to compile these
• Produce original SEO-optimised content with strong visual storytelling

Skills and Desirable Experience

• Essential: Have at least two/three years of newsroom experience, national or local
• Essential: Have a good understanding of news SEO best practice and its role in digital journalism
• Essential: Have experience writing original articles on a range of topics
• Essential: A basic understanding of technical SEO
• Essential: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a team
• Desired: Have experience using analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics) to produce actionable insights for the wider newsroom
• Desired: Have experience using SEO tools e.g. SEMRush, NewsDashboard

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

About Us

The i Paper is Britain's youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. The i Paper has a unique mission: publishing non-partisan reporting and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, The i Paper has also grown digital reach to 11m users a month. Growing in influence, The i Paper is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.