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Job Introduction

The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded primarily by the licence fee that is paid by UK households. The BBC uses this income to provide services to audiences in the UK and around the world, through TV, radio and online.

BBC News & Current Affairs is the largest broadcast news operation in the world, providing trusted news and analysis output across Network News and the World Service Group to audiences in the UK and internationally. The CEO of News & Current Affairs leads a division of c6000 staff to deliver the most innovative and creative journalism to an audience of half a billion across the globe.

BBC News is a new 24/7 multiplatform channel and stream providing the best of the BBC’s global journalism to audiences in the UK and around the world. We expect this to become Britain’s most watched news channel across the BBC’s platforms online and on television, with the ability to steam content specifically for UK audiences, as well as reaching millions of weekly viewers across the world.

Main Responsibilities

This Senior Editor role will form part of the senior leadership team for the new BBC News Channel, providing BBC News around the clock, in the UK and around the world. The role holder requires advanced leadership skills in both the running of a high-pressure live news team and significant change management. The leadership team is responsible for launching and running a high-profile multi-platform new offering from BBC News in line with the editorial and strategic objectives, and as such the role requires leaders who are able to embrace change as audience needs evolve over the next few years, be highly resilient, work with uncertainty and take on new tasks, responsibilities and skills. The role will jointly manage the wider management team on the new Channel, as well as leading the Journalist roles.

Are you the right candidate?

• Demonstrable change management and leadership. These leaders will need the ability to build trust, self-motivate and motivate their team as we transition the team into the new channel and new way of working, where we will embrace a flexible schedule and an agile team that can adapt to changing and emerging audience needs. The requirement for this level of change management skills is not part of the Band F roles on the current channels team.

• This role is expected to be a change leader and a highly skilled communicator, within the wider BBC News department, heralding, promoting and communicating a positive culture of ongoing transformation across news. They will be expected to confidently and positively demonstrate multiplatform and agile ways of working to our colleagues outside of the channel team and to develop and embed new workflows that integrate with the digital team.

• Experience of strategic thinking to realise our vision, with leaders who have proven ability to work across multiple platforms and require an understanding of differing audience needs whether they are accessing the new channel from their phones, their televisions, iPlayer or the website. This is a change from the current Band F roles on the channels team that require highly developed understanding of audience need for television news channels only.

• Demonstrable experience of fostering innovation. This new role will be responsible will be overseeing an editorially sophisticated agenda, spanning multiple different audiences, and requires them to lead the team in navigating this, choosing when to break away for coverage for UK audiences or for other streams on iplayer or the website.

• Substantial experience of journalism and production for linear and digital platforms, as well as proven editorial judgement and substantial experience of managing editorial and operational staff and facilities in a daily news environment.

• Demonstrates balanced and impartial judgement. Makes the right editorial decisions with guidance.

• Demonstrate a commitment to improving the diversity of the BBC’s coverage, representing all audiences and all points of view.

About the BBC

Reinventing the BBC for the next Generation

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. And we promote flexible working opportunities where operational needs allow.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: F

Contract: Permanent

Base: London W1A

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Job Application Requirements:

• CV
• Questionnaire by following the process through Careers Hub

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.