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Working closely with the Website Editor, this role will be central to turning the Reform UK website into a fast, authoritative and high-performing national publishing operation.\nThe Deputy Website Editor will run shifts, commission stories, manage handovers, quality-control output, respond to breaking news and help maintain the homepage and daily publishing agenda across a seven-day rota. The role requires strong native digital skills, excellent judgement, energy and the ability to keep a busy team organised when the news agenda changes quickly.\nWhat you'll do\nRun shifts and keep the newsroom buzzing\nDeputise for the Website Editor and take clear responsibility for the newsroom, homepage and publishing agenda during assigned shifts.\nRun commissioning, handovers and daily priorities so every important story has an owner, deadline, platform package and next action.\nReact quickly to breaking news, speeches, events and political developments, reallocating resources and updating priorities without losing control of the broader schedule.\nHelp manage early, late and weekend rotas, ensuring consistent leadership, continuity and resilience across the seven-day operation.\nKey Responsibilities\nCommission strong, original digital journalism\nCommission and edit breaking news, original reporting, interviews, explainers, policy coverage, video-led stories and event packages that can compete for national attention.\nPush reporters beyond low-value rewriting and clipping, encouraging original angles, strong sourcing, clear headlines and useful follow-up coverage.\nHelp build named topic ownership and repeatable coverage rhythms around priority areas so the website develops authority as well as volume.\nEnsure copy is accurate, well structured, properly sourced and appropriately optimised before publication, with clear escalation on contentious or higher-risk material.\nMaintain high standards of headline writing, homepage presentation, internal linking, embeds, recirculation and lifecycle management of time-sensitive pages.\nUse data, SEO and audience signals intelligently\nMonitor real-time and longer-term performance and use the evidence to influence commissioning, headlines, homepage treatment and follow-up coverage.\nApply strong SEO knowledge to breaking and evergreen publishing, helping grow non-branded discovery and authority around Reform UK's key topics and public figures.\nSpot opportunities quickly from search demand, audience behaviour, social signals and the developing news agenda, and convert them into practical editorial action.\nDevelop the team and maintain high standards\nCoach reporters and producers during shifts, providing clear feedback and helping less experienced colleagues improve speed, judgement and native digital skills.\nSupport performance management, training, rota planning and team development, identifying gaps or recurring workflow problems early.\nWork as part of one joined-up digital operation\nCoordinate closely with Video & Live and Brand Social Media so major stories and events are planned for the website and adapted effectively across other platforms.\nWork constructively with Communications, Campaigns, Policy, Operations and other stakeholders while maintaining clear editorial priorities and avoiding unnecessary gatekeeping.\nHelp ensure website content supports wider audience journeys into email, ReformGo, membership, events and other appropriate actions without weakening the core editorial product.\nPerformance and Leadership:\nApply strong editorial and legal judgement to fast-moving content, escalating defamation, contempt, privacy, copyright or other risks appropriately.\nUse clear green/amber/red approval principles so routine work moves quickly while contentious or high-risk material receives the right level of review.\nIdentify bottlenecks and recurring errors, fix the underlying workflow where possible and escalate structural issues before they become operational failures.\nGive the Website Editor clear updates on performance, risks, staffing issues, opportunities and decisions requiring follow-up.\nContribute proactively to editorial planning, new formats, topic strategies and improvements to the website rather than treating the role as shift supervision alone.\nBuild trusted relationships with reporters, senior editors, political colleagues and subject specialists, communicating clearly even when priorities conflict.\nTHE PERSON\nWe are looking for a strong digital news operator ready to take a significant next step: someone with management experience, excellent native digital instincts and the energy to help build and rapidly grow a new national publishing operation.\nEssential experience and capabilities\nSenior experience in a busy digital newsroom, ideally within a national publisher, broadcaster, news brand or similarly high-output environment.\nSome proven management or shift-leadership experience, including commissioning, editing, feedback, handovers and staff coordination.\nExcellent editorial judgement and the confidence to make quick decisions on breaking stories, homepage priorities and competing demands.\nStrong hands-on CMS and digital publishing skills, with an instinctive understanding of how modern website newsrooms operate.\nGood SEO expertise and the ability to apply search thinking to both breaking news and longer-term 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Flexibility is essential; this is not a conventional 9-to-5 role.\nHighly desirable\nExperience deputising for a website editor, news editor, audience editor or comparable senior digital role.\nExperience managing a homepage or live news operation during major breaking stories, elections or significant public events.\nStrong understanding of recirculation, internal linking, email capture and the relationship between editorial content and owned audience growth.\nExperience commissioning video-led or multimedia stories and working closely with social and video teams.\nA track record of suggesting and delivering new formats, coverage approaches or workflow improvements that produced measurable audience gains.\nWhy join Reform UK?\nThis is a rare chance to help build a national digital newsroom rather than simply inherit one. 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