Assistant Editor, Streaming

This is a leadership role as a senior journalist in an innovative and exciting team. You’ll oversee and assign resources, be trusted to make editorial decisions, and take on management and pastoral responsibilities.

Job Requisition ID:  32439
Job Closing Date:  10 November 2025
London, GBR, W1A 1AA

JOB DETAILS

 

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £52,000 – £62,800 plus London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

 

This is a leadership role as a senior journalist in an innovative and exciting team. You’ll oversee and assign resources, be trusted to make editorial decisions, and take on management and pastoral responsibilities. Part time and job-share applications are warmly encouraged.

Why Join the Team

Join the streaming team and be a key part of the future of news consumption. This is an exciting and talented team at the heart of the newsroom. You’ll lead and guide them in delivering innovative and creative single story streams that run across BBC output. You’ll also oversee the curation of those  live streams and the latest news on the iPlayer homepage. You’ll be part of the streaming management team, and there will be opportunities to own significant editorial projects.

**Please note – this is a senior journalism role – not a craft video editing position.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

•    To be an operational and editorial leader delivering coverage of live and daily news
•    To assign resources to stories and work with colleagues and teams across the newsroom to collaborate on coverage
•    To be a leader and role model on team culture. To line manage colleagues and to give constructive feedback to help learning and progression
•    To be an ambassador for the streaming team across the BBC , helping to educate and enthuse others
•    To be able to take on and deliver planned projects – including coverage of special events and original journalism

Your Skills and Experience – Key Criteria

Essential:

•    Experience overseeing output of live news, with a proven track record of making the right decisions in high pressure environments.
•    Excellent editorial judgement – with comprehensive knowledge of BBC editorial policy, media law and regulatory requirements in the BVOD and SVOD space.
•    Understanding and experience of newsroom tooling, systems and techniques to produce live video news output. In particular a strong grasp of how data guides decision making and how curation can build habit and growth.
•    Demonstrable experience of leading engaging and motivating team members. A demonstrated commitment to a kind, inclusive and feedback focussed culture.
•    A strong and deep understanding of audiences, including you.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, 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.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

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.

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