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News Editor - Your Voice, Your BBC News

Job Requisition ID: 24002
Job Closing Date: 10th July 2025
Job Details
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: Your Voice, Your BBC News
LOCATION: London
SALARY RANGE: 56,000 - 66,000 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
Be part of one of BBC News' most high-profile projects: Your Voice, Your BBC News. We invite audiences to shape our journalism by sharing what matters to them and where we should report from. Building on Your Voice, Your Vote, launched during the UK General Election, which helped us uncover overlooked stories, cover issues which may not get national attention and gave the audience a voice. Millions engaged across platforms, and audience feedback shows they truly valued having their voices heard.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM:
Your Voice, Your BBC News is part of News Content UK. You'll sit in the management team of UK News Content, and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking newsroom where innovation drives everything we do. You'll work alongside other colleagues including Story Teams and On The Day, as well as Planning and Commissioning. You'll play a crucial role developing the project with output teams in Live and Daily News. This is your chance to help shape the future of the BBC's journalism and be a champion for our audience. Every day brings fresh challenges and exciting opportunities to uncover stories that matter. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to be at the heart of impactful, audience-focused news, this is the team for you.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the project focusing on short-, medium- and long-term planning.
• Create a wider strategy around our reactive and pro-active use of Your Voice across our output leading on big projects as well as working with others to drive our original journalism.
• Working closely with the Executive News Editor for UK News Content, you will help create the brand voice for Your Voice, come up with story ideas from audience submissions, experimenting with storytelling and creating several reoccurring formats that can work across output and enhance audience engagement.
• Spend time listening to the audience to drive our coverage and creating opportunities for the audience to be part of our coverage including OBs, breaking news and pan BBC projects, ensuring the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
• Work closely with editors across output, ensuring audience feedback drives stories, treatments and is an integral part of the editorial agenda. Also ensuring Your Voice content receives prominent and effective placement across News output.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Editorial Expertise: A strong background in journalism with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to accuracy and fairness.
• Leadership: Experience in leading and inspiring a team or stakeholders across News, with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Innovation: A passion for exploring and developing new storytelling methods. You will test formats, think about a longer term editorial plan, grow our Your Voice brand
• Audience Engagement: Understanding of audience analytics and the ability to tailor content to meet the needs and interests of diverse audiences across the UK.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, as well as develop ideas with Story Teams across the UK and various Programme Editors.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to digital content needs based on audience interaction and the willingness to embrace new challenges.

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.
Information at a Glance
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.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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