Managing Editor, Bbc Countryfile
5 months ago
**Managing Editor, BBC Countryfile**
**Salary: up to £40,000**
**Company Description**
Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.
We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content - in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.
We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better - in print, video, and online.
**Position**
This role sits at the centre of the BBC Countryfile Magazine team. The Managing Editor oversees quality control and content commissioning, and line manages their team, as well as ensuring that the requirements of the print mag and website are met. Guided by the SEO and Trends Editors, the Managing Editor works together with the rest of the team to generate content that works online and in print.
The Managing Editor also works with the Production Editors to ensure the magazine is delivered according to production deadlines and to the standard that subscribers expect.
This role would suit an experienced editor, or highly skilled senior editorial team member looking for their next step, who is used to crafting compelling features with must-read headlines. You will have a keen eye for detail, a sound knowledge of editorial best practice and a solid understand of the law around journalism and copyright.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the job description on our website.
**Requirements**:
**Essential**
- Exceptional knowledge of the print editorial process, alongside a deep understanding of the digital process, in order to support a harmonised approach to content creation
- A keen understanding and experience of delivering editorial best practice. Understanding of what makes great features, must-read headlines, how to develop killer quotes, and delivering exclusives
- A calm and experienced team leader who can help the team navigate change
- Experience of handling busy deadlines and understanding of using good time management to prioritise tasks and manage others
- Great communication skills. The Managing Editor is at the heart of the team connecting content creation with production, so they need to be confident co-ordinating the movements of other team members
**Desirable**
- Experience of publishing on a variety of digital platforms including web, Apple News etc.
- Great understanding of the countryside and rural affairs
**Other information**
**Flexible and hybrid working**
We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.
Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.
We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.
**Company benefits include**
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in-house learning events
- 4x life assurance
**Our values**
We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.
We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.
To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:
- Be kind
- Always curious
- Be the best we can be
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £40,000.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol, BS1 4ST
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