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Are you a passionate sports editor with an eye for detail? Are you able to mentor a team of reporters and provide guidance and feedback to enhance their skills? Are you able to edit articles for clarity and accuracy while working to tight deadlines? If so, we want you to join our team as Deputy Sports Editor.

The successful candidate will possess excellent editing skills and work well within a small team. They should have an in-depth knowledge of Saudi and UAE football as well as a broad knowledge of our other core sports including cricket, MMA, F1, and tennis.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Deputy Sports Editor to join our editorial team. In this role, you will assist the sports editor in overseeing our sports coverage, managing a team of writers, and ensuring our content is both timely and compelling. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative thinker with a strong understanding of the sports landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the sports editor in planning and coordinating daily sports coverage
• Supervise and mentor a team of sports writers, providing feedback and guidance
• Edit and proofread articles to ensure accuracy, clarity, and adherence to our style guidelines
• Collaborate with reporters to generate story ideas and enhance coverage across various sports
• Stay updated on sports news, trends, and events to inform editorial decisions
• Manage social media channels and engage with our audience to promote sports content
• Coordinate with other departments to ensure cohesive coverage across platforms

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, or a related field
• Proven experience in sports journalism, with a track record of producing high-quality content
• Strong editing and writing skills, with a keen eye for detail
• Excellent knowledge of various sports and the current sports landscape
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Leadership skills and a passion for mentoring junior writers
• Proficiency in digital content management systems and social media platforms

The National is looking for a Geo-economics Editor to produce and oversee our macroeconomic coverage, focusing in particular on the way macroeconomics, geopolitics and business intersect in the Mena region and beyond. As well as writing and producing your own stories, the successful candidate will have a leadership role guiding reporters to make their stories stronger with added context of the wider economic background. Candidates should have a deep knowledge of economics and be firmly across business sectors including technology, finance, property and energy in the region and the geopolitical connections between them. You will need a deep understanding of regional economies and the ability to identify leads, developments and topics for analysis from English and ideally Arabic language sources.

Candidates should have at least five years’ journalism experience of writing and editing with a reputable business or news title and a network of contacts to inform your work.

Experience in data and multimedia journalism and Arabic language skills are an advantage. The job is office-based in Abu Dhabi.

The National is the leading news organisation in the Middle East and North Africa. Since being established in 2008, we have set a new standard for high-quality, award-winning journalism in the region – be it with our reporting, videos, podcasts, social media content or newsletters. As well as our main newsroom in Abu Dhabi and its team of 150 journalists, we also have a network of correspondents in countries across the Mena region plus key bureaux in London and Washington DC as well as reporters further afield.

The National is seeking a Riyadh Correspondent to join our foreign department.

The ideal candidate should possess deep knowledge and understanding of politics, diplomacy, society and culture in Saudi Arabia and the wider region and access to influential contacts. A record of breaking exclusive stories in the kingdom is an advantage. Candidates should be fluent in English and Arabic and possess social media skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious, respected news organisation renowned for our reporting of the Middle East and looking to expand the scope of our coverage.

The National, the Middle East’s leading quality news organisation, is looking for a data journalist to join our data visualisation team.

Candidates should have a proven ability to identify stories from data and then to tell those stories through attractive, compelling data visualisation. We are looking for self-starters with a passion for crunching numbers and converting them using data visualisation techniques into must-see content.

A keen interest in and understanding of the news agenda in the Middle East is a strong advantage. You must have newsroom experience working in data journalism. Candidates should be proficient in relevant tools and applications.

The successful candidate will report to our head of data visualisation journalism and work closely with our other data journalists, our infographic artists and our design team. You would also work with the rest of our Abu Dhabi newsroom and our bureaux in London, Washington DC, Beirut and Cairo as well as our correspondents elsewhere in the Mena region and beyond.