Overview

Position Title:Investment Editor

Company:The Telegraph

Location:Thames Ditton, UK

Job Description:

The Telegraph is looking for an analytically minded front-end developer to help manage improvements in our analytics and personalisation infrastructure through Adobe Launch. You’ll help to improve the data that we capture, the analysis we drive and the personalisation we can produce through advancing our use of Adobe Launch and AEP products.

Responsibilities:

  • commission, edit and publish investment content – for print and online – that aims to help our well-informed readership make their own investment decisions and grow their wealth
  • manage two specialist investment reporters and guide them in their work and output
  • write a weekly investment comment
  • work on the investment newsletter
  • monitor reader correspondence and use analytics to inform and improve idea generation and presentation
  • have an endless stream of original, insightful ideas for investing content
  • manage long-term projects such as our Telegraph 25 list of favourite funds, and cover the Questor share tipping column where required
  • manage the Telegraph’s Fantasy Fund Manager game
  • be part of the personal finance editing team covering other Money topics
  • represent the personal finance team across the Telegraph newsroom

Requirements:

  • a strong writer
  • an excellent and experienced editor with an impeccable eye for detail
  • numerate
  • knowledgeable in all fields of personal finance, including investing
  • able to turn complex investment jargon into plain English
  • news-aware and able to spot a story or a digital project from raw numbers or by using stock screening and fund analysis tools
  • knowledgeable about how people invest, including funds, investment trusts and Isa/Sipp providers
  • well-connected in the industry, with a large network of contacts and other sources
  • familiar with a range of formats including news, analysis, expert advice, guides, explainers, evergreens and case studies (such as Money Makeovers) and presentation tools including charts, polls, etc
  • creative and bursting with ideas

About The Telegraph

The Telegraph’s mission is to provide content that inspires people to have the perspective they want to progress in life. It delivers quality, trusted, award-winning journalism, 24 hours a day