Head of Editorial Quality and Compliance
Journalism
Permanent - Full Time
London, GB, W1A 1AA
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 8th November 2024
THE ROLE
Job Introduction
The World Service is the BBC’s international public service, offering multi-platform content around the world. The World Service is one of the largest international newsgathering teams globally, with global coverage from over 72 locations, provided in 42 languages. We are trusted to deliver impartial, fact-based journalism, reporting without fear or favour. We are a true international multimedia broadcaster reaching 450 million people around the world each week, and delivering a wide range of news language and regional services on radio, TV and online. This is an exciting opportunity to join the BBC World Service leadership team, reporting into the BBC News Global Director. The Head of World Service Group Editorial Quality and Compliance will be responsible for enhancing the consistency and quality of news output and standards across the World Service Group, with strategic responsibility for developing a high-quality journalism culture. This will include overseeing high-risk editorial international content.
Main Responsibilities
• Develop and implement effective processes to protect the World Service Group’s reputation and integrity with regards to compliance and editorial standards and liaise with Editorial Policy on the application of policy and processes across the World Service Group.
• Provide quality control and consistency to enhance the strength, depth, range, and quality of output for the World Service Group, ensuring alignment with the Group's strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with World Service Group editorial leaders to maximize editorial value across the Group, increasing audience reach as well as ensuring alignment with the wider BBC News objectives.
• Safeguard World Service Group’s journalistic and editorial standards, supporting the Group’s brand and enhancing reach, reputation, and the impact of World Service journalism.
• Collaborate with World Service Group editorial leaders to develop and embed ways of working that drive positive change in editorial focus and control, leading to a culture of consistently high-quality journalism.
• Support team management activities including recruitment, development, training, and employee relations activities and processes, in line with agreed standards and practices.
• Support senior editorial leaders with high-risk journalism through the provision of pan World Service group editorial oversight and championing impartiality.
• Provide insight to the Managing Editor team responsible for journalism training to ensure output is at a consistently high level.
• Develop a culture across the World Service Group that delivers a greater understanding of editorial quality.
• Represent the World Service Group and BBC News and Current Affairs at a senior level and take accountability for the implementation and delivery of wider World Service Group strategic goals.
Are You The Right Candidate
Essential
• An expert in their field, providing professional leadership and acting as a role model to teams and colleagues.
• Adept at managing numerous and diverse senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing competing priorities.
• Experience of operating at a senior level in the public sector, public service and/or liaising with external/governmental stakeholders.
• A convincing and persuasive communicator, required to engage and influence teams and modify beliefs and opinions of teams, where needed, as well as senior stakeholders. Able to establish effective and collaborative relations across BBC departments, and external agencies/stakeholders where required.
• Awareness of current markets, trends, and issues within the broadcasting industry and wider media sector, and deep knowledge of output across the whole of the BBC, as well as that of competitors.
• Functional expert with broad and comprehensive understanding of theories, systems, and practices relevant to their functional area.
• Clear understanding of the way in which output is commissioned, financed, and produced both for domestic and international markets.
• Broad and comprehensive understanding of all BBC regulatory and contractual obligations as they pertain to their functional area.
• Experience in managing significant budgets and understanding key financial drivers.
About The BBC
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https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf
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 visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge, and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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