Property News Editor

12 month fixed-term contract
- Open to Melbourne or Sydney

We're REA
- REA Group

is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property.

With bold and ambitious goals, we are changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.

Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to be named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Where the team fits in

As a key member of our Content and Growth team, you will experience interesting and challenging work. Our team set the brand vision for our company - what our identity stands for, how we educate the property market through the right data and insights and how best to communicate the stories that matter.

This role works with our in-house and contributor news team as well as our economic and data analytics team to create outstanding property, data, economic and finance editorial, which grows digital content audiences across residential, commercial and financial services sites. This role is for an ambitious self-starter that has great ideas combined with the passion, strategy and ability to make them happen.

As the Property News Editor, we need someone that can generate ideas for editorial and data-led content that is not only on point for our brand, but is engaging and resonates with our property-savvy audience.

What the role is all about
- Write news stories and ensure all content published is timely and accurate
- Manage relationships with external contributors and assign stories to the in-house team
- Harness key audience levers to grow the digital content audience
- Co-ordinate, sub edit and build in-house and external contributor copy
- Lead the development of weekly and monthly news eDMs and omnichannel marketing activity
- Maintain and develop the content calendar and WIP documents and lead team news conferences
- Curate content on-site, App, and Apple News channels
- Upload and manage delivery of content through our CMS
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally

Who we’re looking for
- 10+ years of experience in editorial content production.
- Strong background in news/economic/property/finance reporting and editorial planning
- Ability to interpret data to tell a compelling story for consumers
- Demonstrated ability to write, commission and edit consumer-focused content that provides analysis of current market and economic conditions
- Knowledge of best practice SEO content production
- Expertise in CMS (WordPress preferred)
- Sound project management skills. Proven ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- An understanding of concepts such as website tracking, analytics and technical concepts
- Understanding of how best to engage online audiences and use the latest technologies to drive traffic
- Understanding the digital user experience to ensure content helps provide confidence to the consumer on any part of their property journey

The REA experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow. We’re committed to your development - both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.

We offer:

- A hybrid and flexible approach to working - Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
- Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.
- Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life
- Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job de