Head of Content

Head of Content

Location: Dublin

Department: The Sun

Salary Range: Not Specified

Advertising End Date: 15 Mar 2026

Job Description Head of Content - The Irish Sun Your Team

The Irish Sun is Ireland's No.1, award-winning tabloid newsbrand. The Irish Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people. The Irish Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse and a daily relationship. The Irish Sun strives to the very highest standards of accuracy in its reporting, and continues to invest in original journalism in print and online.

Your role

The head of content leads the news team, working closely with the editorial online and print teams to deliver a distinctive, agenda-setting content package across all platforms. This job is responsible for ensuring world-class standards of digital and print journalism, and leading the editorial team in digital-first commissioning and publishing. You will lead a team of excellent journalists to deliver great work in line with deadlines. As Head of Content, you will help drive exclusive coverage for both the newspaper and the website - including first-class video content - across seven days. Our newsroom is multi-platform so you will need to understand the needs of both the traditional print audience and its growing online audience, and deliver for both.

Day to day you will:

• Help lead, and manage, a team of skilled reporters to bring in agenda-setting stories which chime with Irish Sun audience
• Have an awareness and passion for all things news, showbiz and politics to help drive exclusive story ideas
• Develop news lists with a focus on multi-media opportunities, such as video and podcasts
• Maximise print and digital content to serve both audiences
• Forward planning for events and rotas
• Work closely with the online team to identify audience trends and data insights
• You will be a strong communicator with a drive for success for you and your team.
• Adaptable to changing priorities across both print and digital
• Be motivational leader of a large team, supporting the growth and development of the team
• Use audience data to help guide commissioning of stories
• Generate top-class ideas and guide them through to become multi-platform stories
• Forward-plan, working with journalists on long-range projects and big campaigns

What we are looking for from you:

• Experience and knowledge of working in a fast-paced newsroom environment
• Demonstrable interest in news and current affairs
• Develop The Irish Sun's off diary operation and improve the quality and quantity of our original content
• Strong people management skills, experience of working collaboratively with multi disciplinary teams
• Clear and effective communication skills, with a drive for success for you and your team.
• An ability to be a motivational leader of a large team, supporting the growth and development of individuals
• An ability to work effectively and calmly in a busy role with competing priorities
• Clear, and structured organisations skills with the ability to look beyond the day-to-day pressures with forward planning for major stories
• Flexibility to work across 7 days
• A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues

If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone's potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

Benefits

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News Ireland supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Group Health scheme
• Free Health screening every 2 years
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
• 'Bikes for Work' scheme
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

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