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BBC Scotland News and Current Affairs is committed to providing first class journalism to audiences across Scotland and beyond. Content is provided across a range of platforms: Digital, TV, Radio, and comes from newsrooms around the country in English and Gaelic. Flagship output includes Reporting Scotland, The Nine, An Là, GMS, Lunchtime Live, Drivetime, bbc.co.uk/news/scotland, Politics programming and Disclosure.

BBC Scotland News is committed to reaching new audiences and meeting changing audience habits with a focus on Digital content as well as continuing to deliver to audiences on linear platforms.

We are looking for a Unit Manager to join our busy and fast paced department. You will be part of the Business Support team and support News teams across the country. You will have responsibility for managing the department’s annual budget as well as complying with BBC policies and have a close relationship with department’s other Unit Manager, the Business Partner, Management team, Scheduling & Production Support teams, Finance and other production teams. Applicants should see themselves as enablers who can lead and support teams to ensure they continue to deliver great journalism to audiences while being able to challenge processes and procedures where needed. You should be financially confident with an excellent grasp on systems and have a strong ability to interpret financial data to a non-financial audience.

• Support the BBC Scotland News annual budget process including providing regular financial and business reporting and forecasts.
• Manage and support headcount processes including flexible workforce (freelancers and FTC’s)
• Support the smooth day to day running of the business and production support functions as well as leading on specific projects.
• Manage a team of Schedulers and Production Support
• Have an excellent understanding and ability to deal with all non-Editorial processes including HR / recruitment, T&C’s and other non-editorial policies that impact teams.

• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of, and interest in, the output and workflows of the News department.
• Demonstrable experience in leading teams and delivering a portfolio of projects alongside the ability to juggle the demands of day to day priorities against longer term projects.
• Experience of managing budgets within a department with ability to adapt, change and adjust priorities to meet financial targets.
• Excellent negotiation skills and the ability to influence staff at all levels.

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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, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Pacific Quay

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.