Package Description
Job ID: 021057 / EX2324
Salary: £54,000 - £64,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Band: E
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff
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.
1. Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3. 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.
BBC EXTEND
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Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to join the management team for the national English language radio station for Wales - BBC Radio Wales. This Content Editor role is ideal for someone with extensive leadership and editorial experience.
BBC Radio Wales produces 140 hours of output a week, from production bases across Wales, with a broad range of content - including News, Politics, Sport, Entertainment, Comedy and Music. The Content Editor is a management role driving the station’s creativity and helping to shape future strategy.
Main Responsibilities
At BBC Radio Wales, we’re passionate about creating radio which sits at the heart of Welsh life. We entertain our listeners while informing and educating them – but we want to go further than that: we’ll surprise our audience, delight them – not just sometimes, but every day. We’re the home of a diverse range of presenters including Jason Mohammad, Lucy Owen, Owen Money, Behnaz Akhgar and Bronwen Lewis. We’re warm, we’re welcoming, and hearing from and interacting with our listeners is an essential part of our daily output - because BBC Radio Wales is somewhere our audience calls home.
This role will report to the Managing Editor and work with the Radio Wales management team overseeing editorial responsibility for all daytime content 0900-1700 Monday to Sunday.
Are you the right candidate?
You’ll be an experienced radio professional, with extensive knowledge of the industry on air and technically. As well as strong knowledge of BBC Radio Wales audiences, programmes and presenters, you’ll also need to demonstrate an understanding of the wider audio market in Wales and how best to encourage audience growth.
You’ll have sound creative and editorial judgement and be able to demonstrate the ability to oversee and exec-produce internal and external production teams. Working closely with the Editor of Radio Wales and Sport, the Managing Editor, and the Production Manager, you’ll shape and deliver content in line with station editorial priorities and the BBC’s policies and guidelines.
You’ll have the ability to engage and inspire both in-house and independent programme-making teams, providing editorial leadership and guidance. Well organised and a strong communicator and planner, you’ll be confident leading change and delivering efficiency.
You’ll be a leader who has successfully developed creative partnerships and influenced key business stakeholders.
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 .
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.