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Editorial Director (maternity cover), London
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Client:
The Payments Association
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
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Job Views:
19
Posted:
22.06.2025
Expiry Date:
06.08.2025
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Job Description:
Editorial Director (maternity cover) – The PaymentsAssociation
Salary: £40k-£50k (depending on experience), 4 days per week
1. Editorial Director (maternity cover) – The PaymentsAssociation
Salary: £40k-£50k (depending on experience), 4 days per week
Required: August 2023
Location: Hybrid
Term: Fixed-term contract (9 months, with the potential to extend by 3 months on a 1 month rolling basis)
The Payments Association is seeking a highly motivated Editorial Director to lead the company’s publishing and membership operations, ensuring a consistently high quality and reviewing content to ensure it meets customer needs.
The individual will play a key role in leading and managing the company’s policy, projects, editorial and content marketing teams to maximise engagement and value for members, as well as grow the association’s industry presence.
The role will involve working closely with the membership and event product teams, as well as senior managers .
The individual will work collaboratively with other senior management team members:
* Operations Director
* Events Director
* Sales Director
* CFO
* CEO
The individual will manage the following:
* Editor
* Head of Projects
* Content Marketer
* Head of Policy
* Reporter
We are are a small, dedicated, passionate and fun team who work collectively and strive to be the best in everything we do. This is a great opportunity for a results-driven individual with lots of enthusiasm looking for a position where their ideas count, and they can really make a difference.
About the company
The Payments Association is for payments firms, big and small. We are home to the most influential community in payments, where the connections, collaboration and learning shape an industry that works for all. We help our 180+ members navigate a complex regulatory environment and facilitate profitable business partnerships.
We deliver a world-leading series of events, an active research and policy agenda to bring about meaningful change and innovation, and a powerful digital media portfolio. Through our comprehensive programme of activities for members and with guidance from an independent Advisory Board of leading payments CEOs, we produce a programme of monthly digital and face-to-face events including our annual PAY360 conference and awards dinner, webinars, CEO roundtables, podcasts and training activities. The Payments Association connects the market-makers – informing, influencing and celebrating change and development throughout the booming UK market for payments.
About the role
We are seeking a results-driven leader who can take ownership of The Payments Association’s content strategy.
Reporting to the CEO, the Editorial Director will own The Payments Association’s content strategy. They will be responsible for researching market developments and customer sentiment in relation to content creation and working collaboratively with all departments to ensure we create member value and grow our industry voice.
The role requires keeping track of industry developments and trends through companies. This will allow the Editorial Director to collaborate strategically with the wider business.
Keyresponsibilities
•Ensure department achieves set objectives and support the successful performance and delivery of the content strategy, project working groups and policy and stakeholder engagement activities.
•Manage and support each team member across their areas and responsibilities for content creation/delivery
•Support the production of Payments Intelligence and Payments Review to ensure they meet each publication's brief and are hitting set KPIs.
•Ensure members use the content benefits permitted in their membership agreements .
•Gather and interpret customer insights in collaboration with colleagues in sales and marketing .
• Use of our content and content marketing to grow our profile and awareness of our work .
• Maximise member engagement within content to support the satisfaction and retention of TPA members .
• Lead the editorial strategy, informed by customer insight, to deliver high-value business information to members .
• Develop the voice of the association through content, policy, our working groups and content marketing .
• Manage the editorial advisory board .
Skills, Experience & Personal Attributes
Essential
• Exceptional leadership skills and experience from working in a corporate, membership or trade association environment.
•Excellent communicator with outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Perfect research, writing, interviewing, proofreading and editing abilities, with impeccable attention to detail.
• Strong experience with written, audio and visual content.
• E xcellent written and spoken skills in English.
• Hands-on experience with MS Office, WordPress and other publishing tools.
• Proven familiarity with SEO and social media best practices .
• An e ye for detail, along with critical thinking .
•Prioritising and multitasking skills.
•Government relations and public policy understanding.
• Strong social media and PR experience.
•Outstanding time management & organisational skills.
Desirable
•Government relations and public policy experience.
• Project management of working groups, whitepapers and small events.
•Experience with HubSpot.
•Chairing and moderating at events and for webinars .
Benefits
• Competitive salary.
• Flexibility of working in office/remotely. You choose where you work but within easy access to London for meetings and events.
• 7 hour working day (35 hours per week).
•25 days annual leave per year (increasing annually with tenure, plus day off for birthday).
•Private pension scheme.
•Passionate about a charity or social cause? You get two days paid leave per year for volunteering.
•Annual personal training budget per year to further your development .
•Referral scheme for new employees.
•Social team gatherings and outings.
If this sounds like you, then we'd love to hear from you .
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