Content Editor, Games & Platforms - BBC Children's and Education
Package Description
Job Reference: 18452
Band: E
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract or attachment to 16/06/25 - parental leave cover
Location: Office base is Media City - Salford. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office/location home working.
Salary: Up to £75,000 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 and gym.
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
Do you want to deliver fantastic digital and interactive experiences for young people for some of the most well-known TV and education brands in the UK at a senior level? Then this could be your dream role!
The Digital Media Platforms and Planning team in BBC Children's and Education are looking for an experienced Content Editor to lead a multi-platform digital portfolio designed to inform, educate and entertain kids from 2-16. The portfolio includes apps, games, websites and off-estate experiences in Roblox, for brands including CBeebies, CBBC, Bitesize and BBC.
As Content Editor, Games & Platforms, you will be leading a large multi-disciplinary team across Apps, Games Production and Web. You will be responsible for the ongoing development and delivery of our digital strategy to nurture a lifetime love of the BBC by delivering safe, fun and educational spaces online that kids love and parents trust.
You will inspire your team to deliver creative excellence and high-performing content across our owned and operated portfolio. You will use audience trends, data and insights to drive performance and direction of the team to deliver growth across the portfolio.
Main Responsibilities
You will be reporting into the Head of Digital Media, Platforms and Planning, Children's and Education, and lead a multi-disciplinary team across Platforms, Games Production and Web.
Your main responsibilities will include:
1. Leadership of the Platforms, Games Production and Web teams, providing clear vision and strategy, and how this translates into tangible actions and targets.
2. Editorial responsibility for digital platform output, including being accountable for the compliance and content delivery, acting within BBC Editorial, Legal, Child Protection and Health and Safety guidelines.
3. Responsible for the team budgets and production roadmap, including monitoring and responding to ROI data.
4. Development and delivery of a digital strategy to deliver audience growth targets across the portfolio.
5. Work closely with senior stakeholders across the BBC and Children's and Education to establish strong collaborative working relationships between teams to deliver efficiency and high-impact results.
6. Presenting strategy and performance reports to senior stakeholders across the business.
Are you the right person?
- We are looking for a strong and inclusive leader who can inspire and develop teams.
- You will be a strategic thinking and planner, and be skilled at developing medium and long-term strategies and seeing them through to successful delivery.
- You'll have proven experience of using online analytics and real-time data tools to direct decision making and drive results.
- You will feel comfortable conveying your ideas to senior stakeholders across all different levels in the business.
- You'll be able to build productive relationships and communicate successfully with digital teams, stakeholders, departments across the BBC and external partners.
- We want someone who is passionate about digital content with a solid understanding across multiple digital platforms, who understands what motivates kids to engage online and how to tap into digital trends to drive growth.
- You will be creative and have excellent editorial judgement to make decisions quickly and effectively.
- You will be used to agile working and be able to quickly adapt and pivot where required based on data and insights.
- You'll experienced managing and directing multi-disciplined teams, including recruitment, team development and managing performance where required.
- You'll also have excellent planning and organisational skills, an eye for high-quality content and great attention to detail.
- You'll be committed to creating a fun and inclusive work environment for teams to deliver their best, develop and thrive at work.
It's important that you are passionate about driving change to increase the positive impact the BBC has with young audiences. If this sounds like you, we'd love to receive an application from you!
Interviews will likely take place between 16-18th September
About the BBC
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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