Digital Editor NW (News Editor) - EXTEND Digital Editor NW (News Editor) - EXTEND
BBC Studios Distribution Limited
Digital Editor NW (News Editor) - EXTEND Digital Editor NW (News Editor) - EXTEND
£63267
BBC Studios Distribution Limited, Pendleton, Salford
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
, 11 Sep | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7aedc94232d0416ca57346c293d1a3c2
Full Job Description
- You will help lead the news agenda in our region and work with other leaders to allocate resources.
- You will lead the digital team and oversee commissioning and production of online and social media content.
- You will line manage, develop and support team members and oversee rotas and manage HR processes.
- You will help run the multimedia news hub, making sure our stories are joined up across all our platforms.
- You will work with key stakeholders to make sure the best of the North West's journalism has the highest impact possible.
- You will be responsible for ensuring our journalism meets the highest editorial standards and is legally compliant.
Significant experience of leading a digital team. - Significant people leadership experience.
- Exceptional editorial and legal judgement.
- Experience of working collaboratively with other platforms, ideally TV & radio.
- An understanding of the North West and its communities.
The North West of England is an incredible area and we're looking for a brilliant, dynamic and creative Digital Editor to lead our online and social team as well as the multimedia News Hub. - 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
It's an exciting senior role and you'll be working in one of the busiest and we think best news patches in the country.
You'll understand the story led model, commissioning stories that will work across all platforms. You'll have an expertise in digital, be responsible for overseeing all content for online and social media, but also work closely with the Planning Editor to commission future digital and multiplatform stories.
You'll help run the multimedia news hub on a day to day basis, working collaboratively with TV and radio and joining up content across all our platforms. You will ensure the quality of stories is of the highest standard and will be responsible for editorial standards - ensuring our journalism adheres to BBC guidelines at all times. You need to have extensive editorial experience, sound editorial judgment and be assertive in making decisions on matters of editorial sensitivity under pressure. People skills are essential and you must have experience of line managing, developing and leading teams.
The North West is a very diverse region, with big urban centres and rural landscapes. We want to recruit a leader who understands the audiences we serve. You'll get what matters to the different communities which make up in the North West - from big cities like Manchester and Liverpool, to towns like Blackburn and Blackpool as well as those in rural locations across Lancashire and South Cumbria., 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 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 here.
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.
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.