Role Responsibility

• To deliver creative communications campaigns; encompassing social media, digital media, press and publicity to reach audiences. 
• To develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders; offering expert advice on all external communications matters.
• To deal with reputational issues in a calm, timely and effective manner.
• To proactively seek opportunities to communicate positive messages about the BBC; its content and its services.
• To lead a team of communications professionals, offering clear management, supporting staff development and ensuring objectives are met. 

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a team leader who has experience in a busy press office in a high-profile organisation. You will be a skilled copy editor with excellent news sense and first-class communications skills both written and verbal. You’ll have a proven track record of handling complex reputational issues, working with numerous stakeholders, and navigating competing priorities.

You’ll have a passion for our local and regional services, which includes 39 local radio stations and the most popular news programme in the UK; the BBC One 6:30pm regional bulletins. You will also need a passion for BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Live Sports Extra.

You’ll need to be experienced in successfully motivating and developing a team to meet clear objectives while operating under pressure in a diverse organisation, knowing how to effectively provide counsel to staff and stakeholders on programming, new initiatives, PR strategy and issues.

Package Description

Band:   D
Contract type:   Permanent
Location:   Salford-based role

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 â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here