Job Description
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
- Proven track record and experience at a senior level within communications, in a complex and fast-paced environment.
- Strong evidence of creative achievement, showing ideas, clear thinking and problem solving.
- Demonstrable success in leading, motivating, and developing a team.
- High level of interpersonal skills, with the credibility and influence to advise senior leaders and engage confidently with external stakeholders.
- Proven high-level understanding of communications thinking, practices, and techniques, including audience reach and social media.
Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation’s interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short-term actions with long-term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision-making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future.
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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.