Assistant Editor

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, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

BBC South West prides itself on first class coverage of news stories from across Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands. Our stories are seen and heard across BBC Spotlight, our four radio stations and our digital output and social media feeds.

We now have a rare and exciting opportunity for an Assistant News Editor to help us deliver creative, impactful journalism across all platforms.

Main Responsibilities

As Assistant Editor, you will possess great editorial judgement and an ability to think on your feet when dealing with a big, breaking story.

You will:

• Have experience delivering multi-platform journalism and ensuring all stories are delivered across all platforms and to the highest standard.
• Forge key relationships both externally with contributors, and internally with our teams, with a focus on staff development. You'll have proven experience as a team leader and be recognised as an approachable and supportive people manager.
• Work collaboratively with our teams across the region as well as other BBC locations, to ensure that we are representing all the areas that we serve.
• Place huge value on diversity, both within our team and our output.

Are you the right candidate?

• Our ideal candidate will be an experienced leader and journalist with a clear track record of decision-making in daily news journalism.
• You will have extensive knowledge of news and current affairs in general, and an understanding of the stories that matter to people living and working in the South West.
• You will need the ability to work unsupervised and to tight deadlines and have experience of taking editorial decisions quickly and independently, with the ability to manage material and editorial input from other areas of the BBC.
• You will have experience of working across digital, TV, audio and social media platforms and a good understanding of how to make our content travel further.
• You will have experience of line-management, and collaborative working across teams.
• Full training will be provided, as required.