Assistant Editor, Curation Weekend

This is a key role in a fast-paced newsroom, where you will collaborate with journalists and editors across the BBC to make a real impact on how we deliver a front page for a global audience.

Job Requisition ID: 34795

Job Closing Date:

London, GBR, W1A 1AA

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: 6m Fixed Term, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: London – Office Based

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £55,000 – £65,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

JOB PURPOSE

As an Assistant Editor for Curation, you’ll be working as part of the team that manages the front pages of the BBC News website and app. You’ll work with all parts of BBC News to ensure that our global audiences are served the best and most important stories from across the BBC.

This is a six-month fixed-term contract working a Friday to Monday weekend shift.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The BBC News front pages are the most important places for readers to find our journalism. This is a new weekend-focused role on the Curation team, where you’ll be working with a team of Senior Journalists, leading the curation of the page to determine the mix of stories that will be seen by millions of readers in the UK and around the world. This is a key role in a fast-paced newsroom, where you will collaborate with journalists and editors across the BBC to make a real impact on how we deliver a front page for a global audience.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Oversee curation of the news front pages at weekends, giving direction to Senior Journalists running the BBC News website and app front pages
Use significant news judgement to ensure the selection of stories, headlines, images and videos serves a compelling product, while adapting quickly to breaking news
Work closely with editors to create weekend curation plans, using audience data insights to inform discussions about promotion strategies
Lead daily meetings with editorial teams across the BBC to identify curation priorities
Workshop front-page headlines and images with editors and the picture desk
Gather and interpret audience data to inform curation decisions and best practice
Help guide the development of Senior Journalists on the curation team

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Excellent editorial judgement with significant experience working in curation to execute digital promotion plans in a fast-paced news environment
Proven experience in covering the UK and international news agenda
A strong understanding of weekend news consumption habits, and how to tailor front pages to better serve weekend audiences
A sharp eye for accuracy, balance, context and tone while working in a fast-paced newsroom
Experience of making decisions under pressure while swiftly rolling out a digital coverage plan
Ability to work collaboratively within a team, and with a large newsroom with many stakeholders
A track-record of using data to reach new audiences and drive habit

DESIREABLE CRITERIA

Experience managing diverse, high-performance teams
Experience working with product or technical teams
Demonstrable experience of developing and honing newsroom workflows

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

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Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.