News Editor - Your Voice, Your BBC News

BBC; London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the BBC as a News Editor for the 'Your Voice, Your BBC News' project, where you'll guide audience engagement and editorial strategy. This role offers a unique chance to influence the future of journalism at BBC, working closely with diverse teams to uncover impactful stories. If you're passionate about journalism, audience interaction, and want to be part of innovative projects, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong background in journalism with attention to detail.
• Experience leading teams and managing multiple projects.
• Ability to tailor content for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Shape and plan the Your Voice project with a focus on audience engagement.
• Create strategies for both reactive and proactive journalism.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive original journalism.

Skills

Editorial Expertise

Leadership

Innovation

Audience Engagement

Collaboration

Adaptability

Job description

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Job Details

JOB BAND: E

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: Your Voice, Your BBC News

LOCATION: London

SALARY RANGE: £56,000 - £66,000 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of The Role

Be part of one of BBC News’ most high-profile projects: Your Voice, Your BBC News. We invite audiences to shape our journalism by sharing what matters to them and where we should report from. Building on Your Voice, Your Vote, launched during the UK General Election, which helped us uncover overlooked stories, cover issues which may not get national attention and gave the audience a voice. Millions engaged across platforms, and audience feedback shows they truly valued having their voices heard.

Why Join The Team

Your Voice, Your BBC News is part of News Content UK. You’ll sit in the management team of UK News Content, and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking newsroom where innovation drives everything we do. You’ll work alongside other colleagues including Story Teams and On The Day, as well as Planning and Commissioning. You’ll play a crucial role developing the project with output teams in Live and Daily News. This is your chance to help shape the future of the BBC’s journalism and be a champion for our audience. Every day brings fresh challenges and exciting opportunities to uncover stories that matter. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to be at the heart of impactful, audience-focused news, this is the team for you.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the project focusing on short-, medium- and long-term planning.
• Create a wider strategy around our reactive and pro-active use of Your Voice across our output leading on big projects as well as working with others to drive our original journalism.
• Working closely with the Executive News Editor for UK News Content, you will help create the brand voice for Your Voice, come up with story ideas from audience submissions, experimenting with storytelling and creating several reoccurring formats that can work across output and enhance audience engagement.
• Spend time listening to the audience to drive our coverage and creating opportunities for the audience to be part of our coverage including OBs, breaking news and pan BBC projects, ensuring the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
• Work closely with editors across output, ensuring audience feedback drives stories, treatments and is an integral part of the editorial agenda. Also ensuring Your Voice content receives prominent and effective placement across News output.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Editorial Expertise: A strong background in journalism with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to accuracy and fairness.
• Leadership: Experience in leading and inspiring a team or stakeholders across News, with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Innovation: A passion for exploring and developing new storytelling methods. You will test formats, think about a longer term editorial plan, grow our Your Voice brand
• Audience Engagement: Understanding of audience analytics and the ability to tailor content to meet the needs and interests of diverse audiences across the UK.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, as well as develop ideas with Story Teams across the UK and various Programme Editors.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to digital content needs based on audience interaction and the willingness to embrace new challenges.
  
  

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail]

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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