Content Editor, Live Streaming Campaign – BBC (London)

Band: E
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract to 21/03/2025
Location: Salford, Quay House, Media City
Salary: £59,000 – £69,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

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From the World Cup and the Euros to the Olympics, 6Nations and Wimbledon, BBC Sport is at the heart of the World’s greatest sporting events.  As the Content Editor for the Live Streaming team you will be an integral part of delivering BBC Sport’s world class live digital offering across these events and more.

We are looking for an individual who can help develop our current portfolio of events, and commission new content to support our digital strategy.  The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of leading teams, be data-literate and be curious about how audience trends are changing and driving viewing habits.  You will be confident navigating new methods of delivery and be able to bring multiple departments together to work effectively.  A wide sporting knowledge and a passion for content is essential for this role.

We want BBC Sport’s output to reflect and understand the audiences we serve – for example, the different geographical regions of the UK and the experience of people from underrepresented groups (eg people from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, people with lived experience of disability, individuals within the LGBTQ+ community and those from lower socio-economic groups).  We are therefore actively seeking individuals with skills or experience that can help contribute towards ensuring we maximise the diversity of our coverage and content.

• Lead a team of producers, assistant producers, and journalism researchers on a day-to-day basis, including delegating tasks, setting objectives and managing performance.
• Oversee planning and delivery of live sport on the iPlayer, online and digital platforms.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, pursuing and developing editorial interests of the department.
• Oversee and manage the project budgets, working closely with production management colleagues.
• Work with the executive producer and sports rights team to research and identify events and properties that support BBC Sport’s digital strategy.
• Have excellent knowledge of new methods of broadcast delivery, and a keen interest in technological developments in this area.
• Have a strong understanding of audience trends, particularly how audiences consume live Sport, applying this knowledge to our output.
• Ability to share knowledge and communicate live sport priorities across BBC Sport, including senior staff, to best promote live content.
• Demonstrable experience of applying sound editorial judgement based on an understanding of the target audience and editorial guidelines.
• A keen interest in working with colleagues in research and development and broadcast technology to produce effective and innovative solutions and innovations to output.

We are looking for an individual with significant experience of working in Live Sport production, event production or digital development.  You will have excellent editorial judgement, superb sporting knowledge and be cognisant of product development and digital delivery methods.

The successful candidate will be someone with proven leadership skills who can manage a team with various levels of experience, from different backgrounds and with different career goals.  We take huge pride in our team culture and want to further develop this within the team.  You will be able to balance developing creativity and innovation with constant constructive feedback and innovation.

The right person will be an excellent communicator and innovative thinker who can work with technical teams to design and develop appropriate broadcast solutions and with production teams to develop original digital content.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.