Content Editor, (Radio 3)

Radio 3 Production is a team of people passionate about music. As part of BBC Audio, we are the largest supplier of content to Radio 3. We love classical in the broadest sense, new music, jazz, world, folk and film music.

We make a portfolio of programmes including Breakfast, Essential Classics, Lunchtime Concerts, Afternoon Concert, In Tune, a whole range of broadcast concerts, specialist output like Jazz Record Requests, Music Planet, Record Review, Radio 3 in Concert , innovative award winning programmes like Night Tracks and podcasts including Classical Fix, This Classical Life and Music and Meditation for Sounds. We are the Broadcast Partner of The Proms for Radio 3 and BBC Sounds. We aim to bring our enthusiasm for this music to our audiences via content on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, live or pre-recorded, in the studio or in the concert hall.

Main Responsibilities

The Editor is a key member of the management team, leading the editorial direction on multiple strands and responding to the vision of the Head and Controller. In addition the expectation is to encourage new ideas, driving digital for Sounds, respond to commissioning rounds leading teams to pitch for new business. Editors need to keep across complex budgets and to allocate and schedule staff as well as supporting their development.

Radio 3 Production will be going through a period of great change with Across the UK moves to Salford in the next year. It’s essential to demonstrate you have the ability to manage change sensitively and with resilience. Editors need to be familiar with HR processes, be fully across corporate objectives and have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Editors are expected to deputise for the Head of Production on BBC Radio 3 offers its audience a unique blend of music and culture. It does this through a schedule of live and recorded programmes, concerts of classical music, new music, jazz and world music, as well as through insightful documentaries, crafted features and ambitious drama. It is the main broadcast partner of the BBC Proms and of the BBC Orchestras and Choirs.