Overview

Position Title: Programme Lawyer

Company:  ITV

Location:  Loughborough, UK

Job Description

We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.
Every year ITV Studios produce hundreds of hours of programmes for ITV and other leading broadcasters, making some of the nation’s favourite programmes, including I’m A Celebrity, Love Island and Come Dine With Me.
We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can’t get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Draft responses to programme regulatory complaints
  • Contribute to compliance process continuous improvement
  • Provide advice and support to non-legal Compliance team on request
  • Provide advice on compliance with broadcasting regulations including the Ofcom
  • Broadcasting Code
  • Capture compliance data on approved broadcast and compliance systems
  • Conduct proactive compliance risk and issue management
  • Provide advice on a range of legal issues including defamation, contempt, privacy and copyright
  • Ensure that producers (inc 3rd parties) understand their compliance obligations

 

Requirements:

  • Ability to provide constructive and creative solutions to legal and compliance problems
  • Ability to manage a demanding and varied workload involving every part of the output of
  • ITV’s family of channels, including network documentaries, entertainment and reality series, and regional news reporting.
  • Knowledge of regulatory Codes and their practical application
  • Ability to provide authoritative and succinct advice on very short notice
  • Ability to forge effective working relationships with producers, ITV business contacts and the
  • Compliance team
  • Knowledge of law of defamation, contempt, privacy and copyright
  • Ability to exercise sound analytical judgement and risk assessment skills
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About ITV

It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.

We have a rich history for making fantastic award winning programs and we’re proud of it. In addition to traditional broadcasting on our channels, we deliver our content on demand through numerous platforms, both directly and via the ITV Hub. Through ITV Studios, our international content business - the largest production company in the UK, we produce content for both our own channels and third parties in the UK and increasingly overseas.

Our leadership is stronger than ever, together, we all work hard to focus on our people, on new technologies and the creative impact that makes ITV such a powerhouse.

We love what we do for our audience; we’ve built a lasting, warm and reassuring relationship with our viewers. They trust, like and look to us every day. We make our audience think, we make them sigh, we make them smile. If the prospect makes you do the same, we’d love for you to explore our current opportunities.