Acting Fashion and Beauty Assistant (Fixed Term Contract - 6 Months)

About The Role

The Fashion and Beauty Assistant plays an integral role in The Telegraph’s award-winning fashion team, responsible for picture research, creating galleries, assisting with styling daily content, while supporting the fashion and beauty editors on a fast-moving desk.

The ideal candidate will have a strong visual sense, organisational skills and an enthusiasm for creating fashion and beauty content across all platforms. Stylist assisting experience and the ability to write confident, clean copy is also a must, as the Fashion and Beauty Assistant will need to prepare for shoots, create galleries and write occasional articles.

Balancing these editorial responsibilities with administrative tasks - supporting the busy department with payments, booking and forward planning - is key to success in this role.

Key Skills

● Must have relevant experience of digital publishing platforms and social media.

● A knowledge of key fashion events and a network of contacts with fashion and beauty PR

● A confident, calm manner in dealing with stakeholders at all levels, internally and externally.

● Highly organised, enthusiastic and diligent.

Key Responsibilities

Styling

• Assisting Style Editor on fashion and beauty features as required
• Call ins and returns
• Liaising with the picture editors to book studios/ photographer/ HMU
• Managing interns in the fashion cupboard

Galleries

• Supporting the fashion week team rolling blog with picture research and gallery creation.
• Working with the team to create galleries for Awards season as required 

Shopping

• Supporting Style Editor curating shopping for Telegraph Mag style pages 
• Adding to fashion and beauty features where necessary

Picture research

• For the majority of fashion and beauty features
• For merch, ensuring imagery is high quality and saved with the correct credits

Instagram

• Supporting the Fashion Team’s social strategy creating social posts (ideally 2 posts a day) using Later.com
• Using the departmental phone for collab posts and video
• Liaising with contributors for collab posts

EIS Payments

• For all fashion and beauty freelancers
• Newsroom support group

Fashion Week

• Hotel booking
• Travel booking
• Taxis to and from airport/ Eurostars
• Schedules for Milan and Paris 
• Head of Fashion's expenses

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.