Job Description
Package Description
Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: New Broadcasting House, London
Job Application Requirements:
CV
Questionnaire with opportunity to detail your experience
Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.
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 holiday (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.
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Job Introduction
The Streaming team is a pioneering multidisciplinary team, charged with delivering, creating and curating the best of BBC News in live video and audio, across our platforms. The team is growing to serve and build audiences consuming news on our streaming platform, website and apps. You will play a key role in this crucial work, overseeing output and amplifying moments across our platforms on a daily basis.
BBC News is investing in Digital with the mission to become the first ever digital-first, global public service news media organisation. The Digital Department is overseeing crucial growth plans for streaming on iPlayer, on BBC News live pages and on
Main Responsibilities
News for streaming audiences requires a data-driven, always-on, agile team that is continually developing and adapting our offer to meet audience needs. The Assistant Editor Streaming will play a key role, assisting and working with the Streaming Editor and News Editor to deliver this pioneering new service.
iPlayer is a major priority for the BBC and for BBC News. As an Assistant Editor, you will assist the News Editor, overseeing output on a daily basis, ensuring our news offer consistently meets the needs of all audiences. You will use analytics and audience research confidently to guide decisions, curating, modifying and tweaking our output day-to-day to provide the very best of BBC News for our audiences
You'll be responsible for daily output and amplification of moments across the BBC. At the heart of our breaking news offer, you'll assist in overseeing team members working on streams across BBC platforms round-the-clock.
Since launch, BBC News' streams have reached millions of users in the UK and around the world. Across iPlayer, the BBC News website and app and on live pages, we bring audiences live coverage of the biggest stories - delivering the best of the BBC's journalism 24/7. Following significant investment in digital teams across BBC News, the team is now expanding and broadening to deliver non-stop coverage around the clock, from across the globe.
You'll be innovative, constantly looking to iterate and develop our streaming offer; with sound editorial knowledge and experience but a desire to push the boundaries and a passion for developing the future of live video news. At home with breaking news, or pre-planned major events - with a specific focus on showcasing the best of the BBC to audiences wherever they are with us, digitally.
The Assistant Editor will work with, and assist, the News Editor and Senior News Editor to oversee output and team members, with some line management responsibility. They will be expected to work across a variety of daytime, evening and weekend shifts to help us deliver always on News coverage across BBC platforms.
It's an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry; you'll be motivated to embrace the challenge and inspire others to seize the opportunity too.
Are You The Right Candidate?
You will be able to demonstrate the following key criteria:
Experience overseeing output of a live news offer, delivering for digital-first products, with a proven track record of making the right decisions in high pressure environments.
Excellent editorial judgement - with comprehensive knowledge of BBC editorial policy, media law and regulatory requirements in the BVOD and SVOD space.
Significant experience outputting and producing live programming on a wide variety of subjects, from breaking news to planned coverage of events.
Understanding and experience of newsroom tooling, systems and techniques to produce live video news output.
Demonstrable experience engaging and motivating team members, consistently upholding data-driven decision making.
Capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.
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.
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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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