CURRENT OPPORTUNITY
Collectively, Board members are responsible for ensuring the BBC effectively, efficiently and independently exercises its functions as set out in the BBC’s Royal Charter and Framework Agreement. These are, to:
- Uphold and protect the independence of the BBC.
- Ensure that the BBC fulfils its mission and promotes its public purposes.
- Act in the public interest, ensuring that the benefits of decisions relating to the fulfilment of the mission and promotion of its purposes outweigh the costs.
- Set the BBC’s strategic direction and budget.
- Set a performance assessment framework and monitor delivery against it.
- Set the BBC’s editorial and creative direction, and standards.
- Ensure the proper handling of complaints about the BBC.
- Ensure the effective and efficient management of the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries.
- Exercise rigorous stewardship of public money, securing the effective and efficient management of the BBC’s finances.
- Ensure that the BBC complies with its legal obligations including those set by the Royal Charter.
- Consider proposals for material changes to the BBC’s UK Public Services, non-service activities, trading activities and commercial services.
- Observe high standards of openness and seek to maximise transparency and accountability.
- Appoint, and hold to account, the management of the BBC.
- Monitor the BBC’s engagement with, and reporting of performance to, its stakeholders, in particular to licence fee payers, and ensure it is assessing and meeting the needs of the diverse communities of the UK.
JOB DESCRIPTION: MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Non-executive directors have particular responsibility for:
- Bringing an external perspective to bear on the business of the BBC and contributing to the development of effective strategy and organisational change.
- Ensuring that the Board’s decision-making is in the public interest informed by the best interests of the audience and with appropriate regard to the impact of decisions on the wider media market in the UK.
- Providing an independent, objective viewpoint on the Board to test and constructively challenge management.
- Playing a key role in ensuring that the BBC maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, particularly with respect to financial reporting, internal controls and risk management
- Being a personal role model for, and taking an active and engaged interest in, a strong, positive and inclusive culture within the BBC.
ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE?
As a non-executive member of the BBC Board the candidate should demonstrate the following essential skills and experience, as well as other desirable criteria.
Essential skills and experience
All candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the independence, mission and public purposes of the BBC, as well as demonstrating they meet a majority of the following criteria to a high degree:
- Experience working at the highest level of public service or commercial life in the UK.
- Experience of sitting on and/or chairing main boards of organisations of significant scale.
- An understanding of the key challenges, changes and opportunities facing public service broadcasting in both the UK and the broader global commercial media sector, and the impact of these on audiences.
- A proven ability to think through complex issues strategically, independently and imaginatively, across a wide range of subjects.
- Experience exercising strong financial stewardship and securing value for money.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship management skills, and the ability to represent the BBC capably to a wide range of stakeholder groups, including audiences, parliamentarians and the media.
Job Closing Date: 17th October 2025
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