Assistant Editor, Digital, Weekend News – BBC (London)

Job Reference: 11204

Band:  E

Salary:  £53,000 – £63,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type:  x2 Continuing posts

Location:   New Broadcasting House, London

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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The Assistant Editors are the lynchpins of the Digital News team, driving our on-the-day news coverage when on shift and ensuring we have high quality and well-reported stories and video across our digital platforms.

The job requires an editor who is as confident managing major breaking news coverage as commissioning on-the-day stories that work for digital audiences from other teams in BBC News.

These are senior roles in the Digital News team and, working with the Senior News Editor, play an important role in managing the team and helping it achieve editorial and audience goals.

These roles will be on a weekend rota and will involve two weekday shifts too.

You will be able to demonstrate the following key criteria:

Excellent editorial judgement with experience of overseeing breaking news on digital platforms and executing a digital coverage plan

Experience of commissioning reporters and editing text stories to deliver high quality news reporting in a breaking news environment

Experience of managing and motivating a team under pressure

A track record of successfully using audience and search data to improve digital coverage, drive change and reach new audiences

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.