Senior Editor, Football – BBC (Salford)

• Band: F
• Salary: £68,000 – £91,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
• Contract type: Permanent and Continuing
• Location: Salford

This advert is for a Senior Editor, Football, however as part of our internal career path framework the role will be mapped as a Senior News Editor .  

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

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.

Job Introduction

As the world’s leading public service broadcaster, the BBC has a responsibility to provide services to audiences in the UK and around the world, drawing bigger numbers than anyone else – on TV, radio and digital through TV, radio and online.   As part of this, we have become synonymous with covering the worlds biggest sporting events and reporting on the stories that matter.  Our teams produce world-class content for audiences every single day.

BBC Sport is now looking for a Senior News Editor to join the commissioning team responsible for bringing audiences the key stories and talking points in football. You will deliver high impact story-telling across all BBC outlets, working closely with platform specialists in BBC Sport and colleagues across the corporation.

Please Note: Candidates that are progressed to interview stage will be asked to discuss their response to the application question. First round interviews are expected to take place in early November with second round interviews expected in mid-November.

Main Responsibilities

You will work with the commissioning team in BBC Sport to set and deliver a future-facing editorial strategy for football story-telling, maximising impact across all platforms to build audiences and approval. The role holder will ensure that the BBC is part of the conversation football fans are having every day, through the commissioning of intelligent, relevant, fast content alongside platform specialists. You will ensure that all of the BBC’s football experts (and content strands) are communicating, commissioning together and deploying resources effectively. Overseeing a team of multi-discipline sports journalists, coaching others to build on strengths and improve on weakness and help to develop the BBC’s new generation of leaders.

Are you the right candidate?

• A brilliant journalist with a love of football. You will have a deep understanding of what football stories to cover and how to convey them. You will be passionate about the sport and telling football fans the things they don’t know about the things they love the most with the skills to take what people are taking about and transform it into relevant, intelligent, entertaining content.
• Demonstrable change management and leadership. The successful leader will need the ability to build trust and motivate their team as BBC Sport continues to evolve. You will develop new ways of working, building an agile team that can adapt to changing and emerging audience needs. The requirement for this level of change management skills is significant and requires open, flexible and self-motivated leadership.
• This role is expected to be a highly skilled influencer and communicator, heralding, promoting and communicating a positive culture of ongoing transformation. They will be expected to confidently drive collaboration across all areas of BBC Sport and embed new workflows that integrate the BBC’s football specialists.
• Demonstrable experience of strategic thinking to realise our vision, with leaders who have proven ability to work across platforms. It requires an understanding of differing audience needs and when they are accessing content.
• Substantial experience of journalism and production for linear and digital platforms.  As well as proven editorial judgement and substantial experience of managing editorial and operational staff and facilities in a daily news environment, this role requires strong online experience and digital journalism skills and an understanding of digital content, SEO, and how to make content for different audiences.
• Proven and demonstrable people leadership skills. Evidence of being able to lead large, diverse teams, motivating them to do their best work. Also, leading from the front, role modelling BBC values and culture, with the ability to manage the channel team and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates balanced and impartial judgement. Makes the right editorial decisions with guidance.
• Demonstrate a commitment to improving the diversity of the BBC’s coverage, representing all audiences and all points of view.

We are also recruiting for a Senior News Editor, Sport and you can view the details of that role below.

• If you an internal candidate please click here 
• If you an external candidate please click here 

Please Note:  If you would like to be considered for both roles,  you only need to apply once for either the Football or Sport role. Please do not apply twice. You will be asked at application stage whether you would like to be considered for both roles.

About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

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.