Description

Role purpose and overview
The Picture Editor is responsible for overseeing the delivery of a first-class picture package across multiple platforms for all Telegraph Media Group titles. This includes serving our award-winning app with fresh pictures for notifications, carousels and picture-rich articles, ensuring our social media accounts have the best displays and delivering the pick of the crop to our newspapers each day.
Key responsibilities
Managing a team of picture editors, researchers and support staff to ensure the most impactful images are published.  This will include defining responsibilities and resetting roles when needed.
Overseeing distribution of picture desk resources on the team rota to ensure all major events are fully staffed.
Managing a multi-million-pound annual budget including evaluating ongoing subscription deals and individual image licensing with third party partners.
Reacting to breaking stories and identifying the best images for immediate publication on telegraph.co.uk and taking a proactive approach to ensure all pictures are promoted on site, in print articles and on social channels.
Conceiving of the best opportunities for securing exclusive news photography and liaising with a team of contracted photographers to ensure optimum delivery.
Building slideshows of the best images to pitch to executive editors at news conference and curating a tight edit of the day’s best photographic content.
Liaising with news and digital editors to ensure fast and accurate publishing plans.
Commissioning exclusive picture sets that can be published in picture gallery format, encouraging new subscriptions and engagement for current registered and subscribed readers.
Identifying pictures that can be used in our exceptional wide-format articles and working with visual editors to source the right pictures.
Using your proven managerial skills to ensure the picture tasting and picture research operations run at an optimum level.
Confidence, tenacity and resilience is needed to successfully pitch pictures to the senior editorial team at conference, you will also be able to explore opportunities that arise from resulting conversations.
Key skills
Significant experience in a deputy or senior picture editor role
Proven experience of managing a seven-figure budget
Demonstrable knowledge of the Telegraph’s photography style and content
A full understanding of licensing, copyright, legal and IPSO obligations
A practical approach to problem solving including the ability to manage several projects running concurrently
Experience of change management would be advantageous
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 also 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 we 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 if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.