Assistant Editor BBC South 21620
Assistant Editor BBC South 21620
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Job Reference: 21620
Band: E
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role FullTime
Location: Office Base is BBC South Southampton.
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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Job Introduction
BBC South prides itself on first class coverage of news stories from across the South taking in Hampshire Dorset the Isle of Wight Berkshire Oxford and parts of Sussex and Surrey. Our stories are seen and heard across BBC South Today our radio stations plus our digital output and social media posts.
We strive to deliver creative and innovate content such as our carbon zero edition of BBC South Today our Killed by the Internet iPlayer special and The Promise podcast.
We now have a rare and exciting opportunity for an Assistant News Editor to help us deliver even more firstclass content for the South.
Main Responsibilities
As Assistant News Editor you will possess great editorial judgement and an ability to think on your feet when dealing with a big breaking story.
You will:
- Ensure our stories are delivered to the highest standard.
- Forge key relationships both externally with contributors and internally with our teams with a focus on staff development. Youll have proven experience as a team leader
- Be recognised as an approachable and supportive people manager.
- Work collaboratively with our teams in Southampton Dorchester Reading and Berkshire as well as other BBC locations to ensure that we are representing all the areas that we serve.
- Have a strong understanding of how our stories can travel across multiplatforms.
- Place huge value on diversity both within our team and our output.
Are you the right candidate
Our ideal candidate will be an experienced leader and journalist with a clear track record of decisionmaking in daily news journalism.
- You will have extensive knowledge of news and current affairs in general and an understanding of the stories that matter to people living and working in the South.
- You will need the ability to work unsupervised and to tight deadlines and have experience of taking editorial decisions quickly and independently with the ability to manage material and editorial input from other areas of the BBC.
- You will have experience of linemanagement and collaborative working across teams.
- Full training will be provided as required.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We dont 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 youve read about our values and behaviourshere.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals 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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 socioeconomic background religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC please clickhere.
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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
