Editorial Adviser

• Provide expert editorial advice to the newly constituted Editorial Standards Committee
• For Editorial Advisor – Complaints: Represent audiences and advocate for all complainants
• Analyse complaints reporting from an external perspective
• Refer to best practice standards for editorial complaints handling
• For Editorial Advisor – Editorial Standards: Provide advice on the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards and their operational implementation
• Brief the Committee on how external regulatory and legal decision-making can impact the BBC’s reporting and programme making

• Senior experience which carries weight and authority in media and journalism
• Knowledge of the UK’s public service broadcast and regulatory environment
• Ability to challenge and vigorously scrutinise in the public interest, the editorial output of the BBC, including delivery of the BBC’s impartiality obligations
• For Editorial Advisor – Complaints: Senior experience of media regulation and/or policy in the UK
• Ability to bring an objective, external perspective to the BBC’s complaints framework and complaints handling, centring the audience experience
• Experience of best practice standards in complaints handling would also be helpful
• For Editorial Advisor – Editorial Standards: Editorial responsibility at a senior level, including running editorial operations and/or senior experience in commissioning or production of media content in a regulated broadcast environment
• Good knowledge of the external regulatory and legal environment
• Experience of handling sensitive editorial issues, and how other broadcasters manage sensitive editorial content, both domestically and internationally
• Independence from the BBC at the point of appointment (criteria provided)

Experience of best practice standards in complaints handling

• Flexible 35-hour working week
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Defined pension scheme
• Discounted dental, health care and gym