Senior Journalist – Racing Post

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🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Spotlight Sports Group

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Spotlight Sports Group is a global expert in sports betting, horse racing, and fantasy sports content. The company offers a range of products and services, including technology-driven content sites that can be customized for any sport and in any language. Their offerings include pre-play, in-play, and horse racing insights, as well as bespoke written content and broadcast-quality audio, designed to engage customers and enhance SEO. Spotlight Sports Group also provides innovative digital products, such as interactive racecards and digital betting shop displays, aimed at elevating the betting experience. Their brands are focused on creating industry-leading sports content for digital platforms, employing a team passionate about sports and forward-thinking ideas.

📋 Description

• Deliver a regular flow of exclusives among a significant volume of strong stories • Quickly develop an appreciation of the audience to tailor content for maximum impact • Write expert analysis, comment and explainers to produce comprehensive packages around the biggest stories • Develop and maintain a sport-leading contacts book • Produce audio-visual output as part of editorial content packages • Pitch story ideas to the Ireland editor and execute those ideas with flair • Actively contribute ideas for news, special reports and news investigations in planning meetings within the wider news team • Monitor the daily news environment in racing, betting and beyond to identify and report potential items of interest • Cover Irish horseracing on and off the track • Write columns, special reports, features and reports from major racedays • Appear on Racing Post video shows as an expert on Irish racing

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent writing and storytelling skills with an instinct for finding stories others miss • A strong knowledge of the horseracing landscape in Ireland and its interlinked industries • A proven affinity for cross-team collaboration • Experience using racing and industry data as the basis for storytelling, with an ability to identify important trends and statistics • Comfortable using performance analytics to shape the approach to identifying and executing stories • An excellent standard of written English and excellent attention to detail • Ability to use initiative, to work under pressure of deadline and without supervision • Excellent communication skills • A team player with the ability to encourage, foster and develop colleagues • Full driving licence

🏖️ Benefits

• private medical insurance • excellent parental leave • a working globally policy • mental health support • assistance programs • social gatherings • a pension scheme • various other benefit schemes • birthdays off work • 25 days of holiday per year • life assurance • exclusive perks like the Star card • Step Further Awards (employee recognition program) • Season Ticket Loan • Cycle to Work Scheme • complimentary access to the Racing Post Members Club, complete with an Ultimate Membership • opportunity to volunteer two days per year with the charity partner