Assistant Editor – Network News – BBC (Scotland)

Job Reference:17458
Band: E
Salary: £50,730 – £79,345 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location:  Glasgow

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 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.

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BBC Scotland News is looking for an assistant editor to run its network news bureau. Reporting directly to the Head of News Content, and working to the Deployment Editor in London, the network news assistant editor is responsible for the deployment, coverage, and delivery of Scottish news to network outlets.

The Network Assistant Editor manages a team of senior correspondents, producers, camera journalists; and works with the Scotland Editor as well as being a key figure in the News Content leadership team.

The successful candidate will help develop our strategy to maximise story value to all audiences as well as delivering high end original journalism and specialist analysis.

• Considerable editorial experience at a senior level.
• Evidenced management of multiple teams.
• Full understanding of Scottish news and political agenda
• Substantial budgetary responsibility
• High level communication skills

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