Overview
Position Title: Head of Journalism
Company: BBC
Location: Leicester, UK
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity at a pivotal time for the BBC. You will be instrumental in helping the BBC to deliver comedy & entertainment programming to BBC audiences across all its platforms (BBC1-4 and iPlayer) securing rights and managing risks across the portfolio of programmes.
Responsibilities:
- Setting and maintaining production and editorial standards and taking responsibility for legal and compliance issues and ensuring that programmes meet the policies, priorities and standards of BBC News
- Ensuring that budgets are observed and achieving value for money in the deployment of staff and resources
- Finding and developing presenters and encouraging diversity
- The role reports into the Executive News Editor for Global English Commissioning.
Requirements:
- Demonstrable understanding of, and interest in, international affairs.
- Experience of managing a large multi-skilled team, with strong leadership skills.
- Demonstrable understanding of the audiences of Radio 4 and the World Service and the competitive markets in which they operate
- Evidence of a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and developing and attracting diverse talent
About BBC
We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world.