Overview
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Job Details
* JOB BAND: SL - Executive News Editor
* CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
* DEPARTMENT: BBC News
* LOCATION: London
Purpose of the role
This is a critical role at the heart of BBC News, driving the daily agenda through strong editorial leadership and sound judgement. The Executive News Editor will apply the BBC’s editorial guidelines to make key decisions, across the output, on highly complex stories. This role will also help lead the digital transformation of the newsroom, manage demand and broaden the story mix.
Your Responsibilities And Impact
* Develop and implement a vision to deliver high quality, distinctive news across multiple platforms.
* Ensure BBC News upholds the highest editorial standards, managing legal and editorial risk and ensuring output complies with the BBC’s editorial guidelines.
* Drive the daily editorial agenda, lead on breaking news, deliver exclusive original content, and broaden the agenda to reach new audiences.
* Provide creative leadership and editorial vision to enhance the strength, depth, range and quality of output, aligned with BBC News strategy.
* Provide leadership and direction at the heart of the newsroom, making key decisions on complex editorial areas.
* Work collaboratively across News Group and the wider BBC to ensure a consistent and coherent approach.
* Guard the BBC’s journalistic and editorial standards, support the BBC brand and enhance reach, reputation and impact; respond to complaints if required.
* Inspire leadership at the heart of the newsroom, supporting staff and their development.
* Lead team management activities including recruitment, development, training and employee relations.
* Be responsible for delivery to designated budget and proactively identify solutions to address budgetary pressures and potential overspends.
* Regularly review team performance to set objectives.
* Ensure health and safety responsibilities and legal obligations are understood and met within the teams.
* Seek out and nurture new diverse staff, on and off air.
* Represent the BBC at a senior level and own the implementation and delivery of wider BBC projects.
Your Skills And Experience
* Extensive editorial leadership experience in News at network level with a deep understanding of news and current affairs.
* Evidence of driving significant digital transformation within a matrixed environment.
* A proven track record in managing diverse senior and executive stakeholders, including governmental stakeholders.
* Significant understanding of current markets, trends and issues within the news industry and a deep knowledge of news output.
* Experience leading teams at a major media organisation with an understanding of producing high quality, agenda-setting digital and broadcast journalism.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks; eligibility to work checks; and, if applicable to the role, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Additional Information
* Seniority level: Director
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
* Industries: Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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