Assistant Editor, Newsletters – BBC (London)

Job Reference: 17383

Band: E

Salary: £53,000 – £65,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House.

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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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We are seeking an assistant editor to run a stable of newsletters which showcase the best of the BBC’s journalism each day. It’s a job for someone with considerable experience in newsletters – equally comfortable with commissioning, writing and editing news and feature copy as with curation of content and team management. The job is based at BBC Broadcasting House, in London.

BBC News is committed to creating a more diverse, inclusive and agile organisation that responds quickly to changing audience needs, provides you with exceptional career opportunities, and strengthens our position as a world-leading source of trusted and impartial news.

• Use your considerable experience in newsletter journalism to deliver a number of daily news-focused emails for a UK and global audience.
• Manage a team of newsletter writers and work with editors across BBC News to ensure we are consistently showcasing the best content.
•  Create and manage workflows that ensure content is published on deadline and to a high standard
• Work closely with other teams to maximise the reach and potential of daily newsletters.
•  Experiment with subjects, formats, and creative ways to produce habit-forming journalism and features.
•  Build a close working relationship with the BBC’s Digital News teams in the UK and overseas.
• Provide expert insight into the competition, audience needs and behaviours

The successful candidate must have:

•    Experience as a digital news editor, with a track record of commissioning and editing UK and international news and current affairs copy for newsletters.
•    Excellent writing and editing skills and experience of taking difficult editorial decisions quickly and independently.
•    Solid understanding of audiences and the newsletter market, and a proven track-record of using analytics to shape decisions
•    Understanding of how newsletters can fit into the wider BBC output, and a strategy on how we should use them to grow our newsletter audience.
•    Excellent leadership and communication skills and the ability to inspire a team.

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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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

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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