Want to work for the New England Times? On this page you’ll find our current vacancies.
New England Times is an independent media company, providing high quality local news without paywalls, covering the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.
We are fearless and committed to delivering the New England and North Coast a real news service that asks the hard questions, tells the real story, and being a genuine Fourth Estate force in the best parts of the world. Really.
Current vacancies
Digital Content Coordinator
We are currently seeking a full time digital content coordinator to be our backbone that takes the news and puts it on all our platforms.
What you’ll be doing
You will help with uploading and scheduling of stories, preparing daily newsletter emails, and translating content into different formats for different channels.
You will be responsible for creating graphics and other content for our social platforms, website and emails, including ads, banners, and simple videos. You will manage both social and web content scheduling in conjunction with our editorial team, SEO, and reporting on both our platform’s performance and monthly view and click reports for our advertisers.
You will also take a lead role in our promotions activity to engage and increase our readership, and help build the presence of New England Times. This includes managing our sales promotions like Best in the New England and Small Business Month, and developing collateral for the sales team.
About you
You’re a little bit web dev, a little bit graphic designer, a little bit social media guru, and love working at pace with a lot of variety. This isn’t a role where you’ll need to go thinking up content – we always have plenty of content!! – but you will need to be good at staying on top of the workflow that just never ends.
Hours and pay
This is envisaged as a full time role but may be split into two if we can’t find the right mix of skills, offering above award pay rates, and we are open to either on staff or sub-contractor arrangements. Work 100% remotely, in Armidale, or a bit of both.
How to Apply
Click below to apply by November 13, 2026
Community Content Coordinator
Looking for someone comfortable in posting in WordPress and great at spotting the typos for a new role with New England Times and North Coast Times.
What you’ll be doing
This is a low level editorial/admin role that incorporates reviewing, proofing and publishing opinion pieces and comments, events notices, public notices, classifieds, sports results and so on, as well as newsletter emails. You’ll also be involved in maintaining relationships with regular contributors and identifying and recruiting new regulars, and keeping an eye out for other things that should be on the sites. There’s a bit of administration, such as keeping email inboxes attended to and keeping records.
About you
This is a junior but not-quite-entry-level role, where we are looking for technical skill and someone who isn’t bored by the process element. There is a bit of editorial judgement required of what is appropriate and what’s not, what needs to be flagged for a potential news story, and there is a little bit of writing in polishing up the weaker submissions. Might suit someone at the end of their career looking for something easy or perhaps someone looking for flexible work around the farm/kids. While this can be done remotely, we are looking for someone who lives in the New England or North Coast regions with local knowledge.
Tools we use
Google Suite (Particularly gmail, drive, docs, sheets and meet), WordPress, ClickUp, Slack, and Canva/Adobe Express are our core tools. Our directory is built on Listeo/Elementor, and if you have experience using the ad system Broadstreet that is also helpful but not required.
Hours and pay
As a new role there’s still a few things to sort out and pay is negotiable, but we are envisioning about 20 hours a week (flexible), and are open to either on staff or sub-contractor arrangements. Work 100% remotely, in Armidale, or a bit of both.
How to Apply
Click below to apply by November 13, 2026
Advertising Sales Representatives
New England Times and North Coast Times are restructuring our sales operations and looking for the right people to help take us to the next level.
This is a flexible remote role for advertising sales people with a proven track record of B2B sales.
You will be responsible for acting on leads generated from our campaigns, booking advertising, and engaging in customer service to build and maintain client relationships. Day-to-day tasks will include communicating with potential and existing clients, pitching and closing sales, and keeping good records of your activities in an online system.
Its a remote role so can be based anywhere, as long as it is somewhere in the North Coast or New England and you’re prepared to drive to see those clients that need the face to face touch within about 100km of home.
What we are looking for
- Well presented people with a bubbly and friendly personality
- Excellent communication skills
- Good work ethic and a hunger to succeed
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Experience in B2B sales
- Drivers licence and ideally your own car
- Comfortable with computers and mobile phones
- Experience with any of these systems also really helpful: Google Suite, Slack, ClickUp, WordPress, Adobe Acrobat, ChatGPT, Broadstreet Ads
- Strong local knowledge of the New England, North Coast or both.
What’s on offer
Or Sales team are offered above award base rates and a very generous commission on top, meaning the better you are at the job the more you make! We’ll also support you with training and growth opportunities, and make sure you feel valued and supported by our fun and flexible team.
Immediate start available for the right candidates. Applications close when we find the right people.
Journalists
New England Times and North Coast Times is always on the hunt for local journalists to add to the team. You can either work freelance, or we have a limited capacity to add on-staff journalists who are based in the parts of the region we need more boots on the ground.
You must live in the New England or North Coast of NSW to be considered, or bring some local knowledge and expertise in one of these areas:
- Politics and Council
- Crime and Courts
- Sport
- Agriculture
- Environment
- Energy
- Health
- Real Estate (especially commercial)
We are particularly keen to hear from multimedia journalists who are comfortable filming, taking photos, doing a podcast or any other format of presentation other than written, as that is where we see the future of our business.
We invite all our freelancers into our Slack space so you can feel a part of the team and collaborate on stories with fellow freelancers and our on staff journos.
We offer a sliding scale of freelance rates based on complexity of the story rather than a per word arrangement. We can negotiate on costs or rates once you have proven your value to the team.
If you have a nose for finding a great story, and the experience of delivering, we would love to hear from you.
Please apply by emailing a brief cover letter, your resume and writing samples to editor@netimes.com.au
Senior Journalist – Politics
New England Times and North Coast Times are looking for a specialist politics reporter to assist with our coverage of the state and federal election.
We’re looking for someone with good local knowledge of the northern NSW electorates (Parkes, New England, Lyne, Cowper, Page, Richmond federally; Northern Tablelands, Barwon, Tamworth, Upper Hunter, Myall Lakes, Port Macquarie, Oxley, Coffs Harbour, Clarence, Lismore, Ballina, Tweed at State level) and with enough political chops to connect the dots and call out the BS.
We’re looking for someone with multimedia skills who would be comfortable doing video longform interviews or short explainer videos as well as writing great copy.
We’ll also ask you to pitch in covering our 25 councils and political issues that transcend electorate boundaries.
You’ll work closely with RK Crosby (who has a PhD in elections) on in-depth coverage, have input into our own polling, and be part of our great experiment to prove that the regions can have high quality coverage of elections just as much as the city.
This is a contract position initially for 18 months, linked to grant funding, but we’re hoping to change to a permanent role after that if we can.
Please contact RK directly about this role – email rkc@netimes.com.au with questions, or apply by sending your resume, letter, and examples of your work.
Applications close November 20, 2026