Editorial Standards Director

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom BBC Full time
Job Overview

The BBC is seeking a seasoned professional to lead the development and implementation of effective processes to protect the World Service Group's reputation and integrity regarding compliance and editorial standards. This role involves liaising with Editorial Policy on the application of policy and processes across the World Service Group.

Main Responsibilities

  1. Oversee the quality control and consistency of output for the World Service Group, ensuring alignment with the Group's strategic priorities.
  2. Collaborate with World Service Group editorial leaders to maximise editorial value across the Group, increasing audience reach and ensuring alignment with the wider BBC News objectives.
  3. Safeguard World Service Group's journalistic and editorial standards, support the Group's brand, and enhance the reach, reputation, and impact of World Service journalism.

What We're Looking For

Essential
  1. Adept at managing numerous and diverse senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing competing priorities.
  2. Experience of operating at a senior level in the public sector, public service, and/or liaising with external/governmental stakeholders.
  3. 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.
  4. Functional expert with a broad and comprehensive understanding of theories, systems, and practices relevant to their functional area.

About The BBC

We're 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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