West Ham United F.C – Editorial Assistant

An exciting apprenticeship opportunity has arisen in the West Ham United Media and Marketing department for a creative, self-motivated individual to gain experience and build their CV in a busy Barclays Premier League Club environment.

This is initially a 12-18 month fixed term contract for an apprentice who will gain a Junior Journalist qualification.

For this reason this role is not open to candidates with an existing journalism qualification (such as NCTJ or BA in Journalism).

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be required to fulfil the following responsibilities as a member of the Media and Marketing Department:

• Produce accurate, engaging and informative content for the Club’s print, digital and social media channels

• Possess a working understanding of how social media platforms work and an ability to use different platforms to publish editorial and rich media content

• Provide original, interesting and commercially effective ideas for new features and written content and video

• Conduct phone and face-to-face interviews with relevant stakeholders to include players, management, supporters and journalists

• Sub-edit incoming content from contributors and bloggers

• Writing promotional copy to assist marketing team as required

• Attend selected first-team, Development Squad, Youth, Ladies and other matches to gather content before, after, and during the game

• Any other tasks as directed by the Content Editor / Multimedia Editor / Digital Director / Head of Media Relations

Equal Opportunities

• To ensure that all departments are provided within an anti-discriminatory framework and take account of such issues as race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion and age.

• To carry out work in a manner which promotes equality of opportunity for both staff and clients.

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