Commissioning Editor, Daytime & Language Strategy
$91,000–$110,000 year
HybridBelfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Develop and deliver high quality, cost-effective returnable series from Northern Ireland, aligning with BBC Daytime & Early Peak Commissioning priorities. Lead on the development, articulation and delivery of impactful cross-platform Content Strategies for Ulster-Scots and Gaeilge, utilizing audience insights and industry trends to identify priorities and review progress. Line manage Assistant Commissioners for Gaeilge and Ulster-Scots, working collaboratively with internal and external partners to maximize audience and cultural benefits. Drive innovation and collaboration to enhance the level of ambition and energy of co-commissioned content, responding to changing audience needs on a cross-platform basis.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience and capacity to act as the primary or sole editorial lead on high quality, impactful content broadcast by BBC Network or equivalent
- Significant experience in the management of editorial with high levels of legal or reputational risk
- Demonstrable capacity and experience in leading on the design and presentation of coherent and effective strategies for content, responding to broadcasting trends, insights and audience needs, new technologies and creative opportunities
- Proven experience in taking a lead in content creation/development in multi-genre Daytime-type high volume, cost-effective tariff programming
- A developed understanding of Northern Ireland's cultural distinctiveness and diversity, including the importance of/role played by Irish and Ulster-Scots and the wider policy context for IML generally and BBC programming in this area
- Capacity to work effectively in partnership and collaboration models, articulating and asserting the interests of the BBC and its audiences in a collegiate, robust and effective manner
- Evidence of editorial judgement, creative flair decisive interventions in enhancing content storytelling in pre- or post-production
- Rigour and discipline in managing the timely delivery of content and associated additional deliverables (e.g., marketing and press materials, iPlayer images)
Desired Qualifications
- Some level of proficiency in Gaeilge and/or Ulster-Scots (written and spoken)
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