Assistant Editor, Scotland News

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent/ Full-Time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Scotland

LOCATION:

Glasgow (Office based)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £52,300 – £67,100 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.

Purpose of the Role

This is a rare opportunity to work in the heart and soul of the BBC Scotland newsroom. We’re looking for an Assistant Editor to help lead our operation across all our platforms. You’d have a primary focus on planning next‑day and future stories, be expected to run our news desk on any given day, and be a key figure in our overall strategy to serve and attract audiences, wherever they consume news.

Why

Join the Team

If you are passionate about journalism, then this is a highly rewarding, influential role. You will be a senior figure in a core newsroom team that fosters ideas, talks to producers, reporters and correspondents about assignments, and makes decisions about our coverage, in conjunction with editors across all platforms. You’ll help develop a positive working culture, and be a driver of the energy required to supply top class news to millions of people, every day.

Your

Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Plan effective next‑day and future story‑led news coverage across all platforms
• Assign story leads, stories and journalistic deployments
• Line‑manage and editorially manage people with varying levels of seniority and expertise
• Form effective relationships with multiple colleagues and teams, around the newsroom and the country.
• Model a positive working ethos

Your Skills and Experience

Essential criteria:

• Experience or demonstrable ability to manage and lead people.
• High level communicator, sound character and positive disposition.
• A grasp of the BBC Scotland news operation and its strategy.
• A full understanding of Scottish news and politics, as well as an awareness of the UK and global news context.
• A command of the BBC’s editorial guidelines.

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.

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.

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35‑hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values‑based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis…