Jobs and Opps at The Evening Standard, BBC Scotland, Bumble, the i, and Many, Many More 😶‍🌫️

This is just a big ol' list of opportunities to apply for.

I wrote in last week’s newsletter about coming back from holiday to an ‘empty office’. I remain, a week later in an empty office, and it feels like I somewhat jumped the gun with a July holiday. Almost every email I send seems to result in an instantaneous bounceback about an exciting adventure somewhere, and combing through job websites this afternoon feels a bit like being stuck in a swamp. The jobs are out there, but the good ones are slightly harder to find. Presumably, because the people hiring are also off on their holidays.

I joke, but our stats do show we both list fewer jobs in August and fewer people click through on the ones we have. So, no, you’re not imagining it, things really are just a bit slow and sludgy right now. For those of us who aren’t headed off into the sunshine over the next few weeks, this is your reminder to also take it easy. Prioritise and just do what you need to — there’s ample time across the month to make sure it all gets done. Take time out to find joy in the adventures near your own home, or even the self-care you’d like to do in your own home. And — once you’ve read the newsletter — shut the laptop and go outside. Especially when it’s grey and drizzly outside.

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• ITV is hiring an office runner. It’s very much an admin role, but it’s the first step on the ladder to working in television production. It pays £23,300—26,000pa.

• This is also a great TV one from Banijay Brightbulb — they work on unscripted TV shows like LEGO Masters, Big Brother, Shipwrecked, and Changing Rooms. This is a full-time, 12-week internship paying London Living Wage.

• Ever wanted to be the person who designs the pages of the magazines you read? SWNS has an ad up for a junior designer, who’ll work on the pages of real-life titles like Pick Me Up! and Chat. It pays from £23,200pa.

• ThreeTenSeven need a junior writer to work on a load of branding projects with their head of brand voice. It pays £22–28,000pa and they say it would suit a “recent-ish grad”, whatever that means.

• Law Business Research has an ad up for a news reporter for its publication Global Data Review, covering everything from GDPR to the regulation of AI. It pays £25–27,000pa and we think it’s worth a shot for those just starting out.

• indu Cosmetics is looking for a social media and content coordinator to help them up their game across socials. It’s focused on TikTok and Instagram and pays the London Living Wage.

• 🏡 Twinkl Digest is a daily update service for the education sector, with an audience of both parents and teachers. There’s a vacancy for a digital content writer to work on news and current affairs and it pays £23,000pa.

• The BBC is hiring a journalism researcher to work across their news hubs, looking after incoming video material. It’s a Band B role, so pays from £23,103pa.

• Jamie Oliver Group is in need of an editorial assistant to write regular online features and newsletters. But, importantly, you’ll be supporting them on the recipe testing process, which sounds like it involves food. Pays £20–30,000pa.

• And, finally, The Week Junior is hiring an editorial assistant who will develop their writing and editing skills over time. It pays £25,000pa.

• This is a reporter role based in Aberdeen —fun fact, there’s a lovely outdoor pool nearby. You’ll be reporting on the energy sector and paid up to £30,000pa.

• The Evening Standard is looking for a social video producer to create, produce, and deliver content for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. This includes fun bits like restaurant reviews on location. It pays £27–30,000pa.

• 🚨Last call for the two jobs with Imagine Learning — they close later this week. There’s a reversioning editor (£26–28,000pa) and a senior reversioning editor (£29–31,000pa), both of which will work on Spanish educational content.

• 🕑 The Eastern Daily Press and The East Anglian Daily Times have an advert up for a commercial features writer working 22.5 hours a week. It pays £22,935pa.

• 🏡 SAGA need a social media editor to work across a bunch of their brands, covering everything from cruises to hotels. It pays up to £35,000pa and they’re very flexible about where you’d work.

• ITV is looking for a journalist for their Welsh programming, to be based in Cardiff. You’ll be paid £31,322–36,359pa and will take the lead on pitching and developing stories and investigations.

• 🕑 A fascinating role with our friends at Heard, who help marginalised voices get their voices authentically into the media. As a climate TV trainer, you’ll be paid £375 per day to work with people across the TV industry on effective storytelling.

• BBC News is hiring a senior social media journalist to focus on their Africa content, with a focus on video. This is a Band D role, which means it pays somewhere in the vast range of £36,195–64,688pa. There’s also a senior journalist role working across Radio Scotland’s three news programmes at the same pay rate.

• BBC Scotland is hiring a production journalist to work on two of their flagship news programmes. It’s Band C so pays £25,670–50,313pa.

• And, finally, there are a bunch of roles at Future this week. TechRadar is looking for a staff writer to focus on sleep, while Tom’s Guide is hiring staff writers for both the homes section and the fitness section. All pay £25,000pa. There’s also a features editor job at Tom’s Guide — again focused on sleep and paying £29,000pa.

• 🚨Global Witness has a vacancy for a head of data investigations, who’ll manage data analysts, investigators, and advisors. It’s a senior role paying £71,539pa.

• 🚨 There’s also a senior investigative journalist role with Global Witness to work on stories about the actions of international banks and asset managers and how they’re making the climate crisis worse. Pays £52,494pa.

• 🏡 This is a senior reporter role looking at the B2B technology space — to tech that businesses make for other businesses rather than consumers. It says fully remote and includes analysis, interviews, and reporting. Pays £40–45,000pa.

• Airliner World, the world’s leading civil aviation magazine, is in need of a new editor to help them really take flight. Sorry, that was a bad pun. They’re paying £40–42,000pa.

• Hansard, the official record of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, is searching for a publishing manager. It pays £39–45,690pa and also a high chance you’d probably score a lot of points on the pub quiz politics questions.

• Campaign, the publication that covers the commercial media industry and is a really great read, is looking for a media editor. It pays £40–45,000pa.

• Bumble and Badoo need a remote freelancer to work on Polish localisation, looking at web and mobile content to spot jargon, nuance, and other slip-ups in translations.

• The Evening Standard is looking for a commercial special projects editor to curate lifestyle content as part of a fixed-term project. It pays up to £300 a day.

• Kuba Shand–Baptiste has a call out for more evergreen opinion pitches for the i. Send over your conversation-driving ideas that aren’t time sensitive. Pays £150.

• Are you a travel writer with experience of visiting Saudi Arabia recently? Rhodri Andrews would like to hear from you. Pays 25ppw.

• The wonderful John Crowley is now working with Banking Risk and Regulation, and FT publication. If you’re a freelancer who knows the sector and wants to write things for them, get in touch.

• I, for one, would be fascinated to read the results of this call-out. Insider is taking pitches from people who feel like Barbie (the movie) ruined their relationship. They’re also looking for ideas based around things you thought weren’t a thing, but totally are. You’ll get it if you read the tweet!

• The great team at PositiveNews, where I also do some work for transparency, need a freelance journalist within two hours of Newcastle for a piece about a green social prescribing project in a forest.

• British GQ’s Owen Gough is looking for freelancers to review grooming tools. This covers a very wide remit from electric toothbrushes to beard trimmers and pays £150 for about 750 words.

• MTV is looking for a senior social media producer on a freelance basis.

• The deadline to appear in the Barriers to Bridges autumn edition is coming up. This is only one for those just starting out/still studying as it only pays £50.

• 🚨 The Life With Fire Podcast has extended the deadline for their call for pitches until Thursday. They’re looking for stories about how certain communities are disproportionately affected by wildfires. It pays up to US$1,000 depending on the level of reporting required.

• Rover.com, a service that provides pet sitting, is looking for a freelance writer to work on assigned articles about dogs and cats. Pays US$150–350 per piece.

• Adam Clark Estes is looking for freelance tech writers to contribute to Vox.com.

• And, finally, Scouted wants to commission some more writers on topics around under-23s football. Pay is £100 a piece.

• 🚨 [AD] The mentoring scheme from the English National Opera closes this week. You’ll get matched with mentors from the likes of The Times, the i, and The Financial Times who will help you write nine reviews from press nights.

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• The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant deadline has been extended to the end of the month. It offers £10,000 towards a project, a year of equipment loan, and professional mentoring with an industry expert.

• 🚨 The Free Press Awards recognise journalists who have taken great risks to ensure the news goes out, even under the most difficult circumstances. The deadline is in exactly a week and you can also nominate other journalists.

• Applications are now open for The Radio Academy’s 30 Under 30 — anyone aged 29 and under whose been working in radio or audio for the past 12 months can put themselves forward for consideration.

• 🚨 There’s a midday deadline on Thursday for the Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship. It gives an early-career journalist a nine-month fellowship with Durham University. You’ll also undertake an investigative project with a newsroom in either London, New York, or Toronto. The fellowship has a monthly salary of £4,444, plus a £1,250 living stipend, and £1,800 for travel expenses.

• 🚨 Applications also close soon for the Creative Producer Lab, which is for the next generation of producers from the North and Midlands. It’s a six-week training programme with sessions twice a week.

• Hannah Strong and Hanna Flint have set up a fund for those from low-income households who would benefit from a grant to cover the £52 cost of accreditation at the BFI London Film Festival this year. You can also contribute here.

• 🚨 Monday is the deadline for the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour. You’ll need to have work for your book ready to submit and you’ll win £500, a free manuscript review, and a meeting with a literary agent.

• The People’s Adulting Mentoring Programme is for anyone ages 18–30 from a marginalised community who would like to book a mentoring session to help navigate the world of work.

• I’m not sure about eligibility for the Study Hall Micro Grant Programme but take a look! They’re offering grants totalling US$4,000 to anyone who wants to start a media project of some description.