Deputy Editor, Streaming

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 121071
Band: F
Salary: £75,000 - £95,000 p.a. plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House.
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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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JOB INTRODUCTION

BBC News Streaming is a team playing a key role in driving the digital transformation of BBC News, in a rapidly changing - and innovative - part of the news landscape.
Our vision is to be the leader in news streaming, by delivering a relevant and compelling offer across live and on demand content that showcases the best of BBC News on iPlayer and our other platforms.
As audiences shift from linear to digital and streaming platforms, we are looking for a Deputy Editor who will help oversee our growing coverage offer both on a day to day and long-term basis. You will be up for the challenge of continually developing what we do and how we do it.
This role reports into the Executive News Editor for Streaming, who you’ll work with to lead coverage from the two teams that make up Streaming: Live and On Demand.
Day-to-day, you will support the Live Editor with delivering single story live streams of breaking and developing stories and planned events from the UK and around the world. These streams run on multiple platforms: iPlayer, BBC News live pages and BBC Sounds. From spring 2025, UK-focused streams will also run on the UK feed of the BBC News Channel. There has been big growth in consumption of our single story live streams and the Deputy Editor will play a key role in ensuring high quality, compelling coverage and helping to evolve our offer to audiences.
Our On Demand team commissions and produces a range of mid to long form news content, made for iPlayer first but are also available to run on our linear channels, including the News Channel. From April 2025, the On Demand team will be responsible for the back half hours that run on the Channel at weekends. Working with the News Editor for On Demand, the Deputy Editor will play a key role in managing the relationship between the Channel and other teams to ensure smooth operations, while also signing off On Demand content when required.
Away from the day-to-day, the Deputy Editor will also have responsibility for overseeing Streaming coverage of special events and key stories across Live and On Demand, working closely with output teams, iPlayer and Marketing to produce relevant and compelling content that is promoted effectively to audiences.
The Deputy Editor will deputise for the Executive News Editor and will work closely with them to execute the strategic vision for the team. Our content is published on iPlayer, Sounds, live pages, the News Channel and beyond - so the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of people in teams in News and across the BBC will be key to success in this role.
You will be agile and organised – comfortable working across both live and on demand output and their different demands and able to juggle overseeing on-the-day news with longer-term projects. You’ll also be an inclusive and inspiring leader, advancing the strong culture we have in Streaming where innovation, trying new ways of working and experimentation for the benefit of audiences is ingrained right across our team.

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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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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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.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee daily output across Live and On Demand content, working with each team to deliver timely, high quality and accurate content that meets the BBC’s editorial and legal requirements, and that they are appropriate for the audience.
• When required, cover for the Live News Editor
• Sign off On Demand content when required
• Deputise for Executive News Editor when required, having overall responsibility for Live and On Demand output
• Assist in developing the Streaming strategy, to communicate that strategy and to assist in leading and coordinating the team to that end.
• Lead on recruitment, staff training, appraisals and staff development initiatives.
• Maximise the benefits of technology for our audiences, promoting new ways of working and develop new types of content, instilling a culture of innovation, fast development and data-led decision making around Streaming content.
• Work with teams across News to communicate the work of Streaming and how they can help; and work with Marketing and iPlayer to effectively market and promote Streaming content to maximise reach and engagement
• Coach others to build on strengths and improve on weakness, gives and listens to regular feedback, helps develop the BBC’s new leaders, recruits and develops talent from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Foster an environment of productive employee relations and responding to and anticipating challenges from staff, unions and audiences.
• Ensure health and safety policy guidelines are implemented and adhered to, and that appropriate safety training is provided. Ensure that the team and its output, work within BBC guidelines on health and safety, diversity and inclusion, and new ways of working.