Jobs at BBC

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Join the BBC team responsible for the routing and resiliency layer serving most of our global Web and Apps products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and operating a high-performance cluster of Elixir applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide, ensuring our key services are fast, reliable, and always available.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• You’d join a collaborative team of expert Elixir engineers dedicated to performance and resilience. You will work on highly impactful solutions, leveraging OTP to serve millions of users globally. We foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning, offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges at a massive scale.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable software in Elixir.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
• Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for our services.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
• Contribute to code reviews and foster a culture of high-quality engineering.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Professional experience developing with functional programming languages (e.g. Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, etc.) or infrastructure-focused programming languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong expertise in designing systems for observability, including effective monitoring, detailed logging, comprehensive performance testing strategies, and hands-on experience with modern observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch to implement and manage monitoring solutions.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS, or other cloud providers like GCP or Azure, to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery.

DESIRED:

• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and performance tuning.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with technical writing

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• The Commercial Procurement Manager will partner with stakeholders to influence the appropriate sourcing approach. You’ll drive third party commercial strategy whilst navigating risk. Operating Independently, whilst leading junior staff across a pipeline of defined category projects. 
• You will ensure BBC standards are met and public procurement regulations are followed. Owning governance processes to ensure approval routes are navigated efficiently and effectively, resulting in the best outcome for the BBC.
• This role sits within the divisional procurement team, partnering with CCOG (Chief Customer Operating Group) which is made up of marketing (media, branding and creative) + audiences and revenue management, together with all things BBC News.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & IMPACT

• Identifying key stakeholders in your category of spend. Developing and maintaining the key stakeholder relationships, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Preparing strategic presentations and reports for category stakeholders, providing data-driven insights and spend management recommendations to drive buy-in and support on annual pipeline plans.
• Delivering procurement projects against plans within category from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
• Identifying and mitigating project risks, escalating issues as necessary to senior management.
• Maintain good relationships with key suppliers, ensuring compliance with organisational policies, ethical standards and public procurement regulations.
• Analysing data to identify cost-saving opportunities and provide actionable decisions.
• Developing and implementing strategic category and sourcing plans that align with business goals.
• Establishing the process to navigate approval and governance processes, ensuring timely clearances and stakeholder support for category plans and execution.
• Coordinating with internal category stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Monitoring and reporting procurement performance metrics to ensure continuous improvement for specific categories.
• Collaborating with suppliers to drive performance innovations and optimal commercial outcomes.
• Conducting performance reviews and providing continual feedback to junior staff to foster their professional development.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Ability to drive commercial & operational benefit through the life of a Media agency relationship
• Ability to apply the appropriate commercial models to ATL & BTL create services.
• Understanding of the Creative & Production process - with an ability to drive commercial benefit. Knowledge of the adapting supply base and use of Martech
• Knowledge of and ability to negotiate SAAS contracts
• Understanding of the print supply base and the connection to BTL creative agency services. 
• Ability to drive commercial benefit and ways to mitigate inflationary pressures in the print Supply base. 
• Have an in-depth understanding of procurement process in a public regulated environment.
• Hold relevant project management skills that enable the successful end-to-end delivery of procurement projects.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to analyse data and apply to market context and trends to provide actionable commercial insights for the BBC.
• Have experience in procurement software and tools.
• Have a proven background of successfully delivering cost optimisation.
• Experience of supplier/contract management with the ability of managing key supply issues and developing relationships to foster innovation.

Job Closing Date:  29/09/2025

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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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YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Lead the strategic development and delivery of evidence-based mental health and wellbeing initiatives across the BBC.
• Provide expert clinical advice and psychological support to teams exposed to wellbeing risks, especially in journalism and newsgathering.
• Collaborate with HR, Safety, and Editorial teams to identify and mitigate psychological risks in the workplace.
• Design and implement proactive interventions that promote psychologically healthy working environments.
• Support critical incident responses and trauma-informed care following major news events.
• Champion a culture of openness, inclusion, and psychological wellbeing across all levels of the organisation.
• Use data and research to evaluate impact and continuously improve wellbeing programmes.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist with substantial post-qualification experience.
• Proven track record of applying psychological principles in complex, high-pressure environments.
• Deep understanding of the psychological risks associated with journalism, trauma exposure, and/or frontline reporting.
• Strategic thinker with experience in designing and delivering organisational wellbeing programmes.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience working within media or similarly dynamic industries.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care practices in global or cross-cultural contexts.
• Familiarity with data-driven approaches to wellbeing programme evaluation.
• Passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplace wellbeing.

Job Closing Date: 01 OCTOBER 2025

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• The BBC Proms is the biggest classical music festival in the world. We run over 100 live events over 2 months in the summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and venues around the UK. Nearly everything we do is broadcast across BBC Radio, TV and online.  We are a creative, innovative festival that connects with audiences around the UK and across the globe.
• You would be part of a dynamic team that looks after Marketing, Learning, Communications, Publications, Business and Live Events. You will build skills in your chosen area and everyone on the team has a chance to work at events. 
• In any single week at the BBC Proms you could be working on events as wide-ranging as the First and Last Nights of the Proms, family events such as our CBeebies concerts, a collaboration with a world-class visiting orchestra or for the BBC Orchestras and Choirs. 

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• The Proms Publications Co-ordinator provides a wide range of administrative and editorial support services to the Publications team to enable it to achieve its objectives. They work closely with the Publishing Manager (line manager), Editorial Manager, Sub-Editor and Designer to support the team’s work in producing printed and online concert programmes for the BBC’s performing groups and for the BBC Proms, as well as producing the BBC Proms Festival Guide.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Provide day-to-day administrative assistance to the Proms Publications Unit, including maintaining office systems and supporting the production of printed programmes and related materials.
• Assist with writing, sub-editing biographies, proofreading, researching information, and distributing proofs and contributor copies.
• Handle picture research and acquisition for publications, liaise with external sources, and manage receipt of biographical materials and photographs.
• Support the Publishing Manager with adverts, deliveries, merchandise, budget spreadsheets, invoice payments, and freelance contributor payments.
• Maintain and develop administrative systems and processes, and manage the archiving of programmes and other materials.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven experience providing comprehensive administrative and editorial assistance to a busy content production team, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
• Excellent command of written English and grammar, with hands-on experience in proofreading and sub-editing content.
• Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines while maintaining composure under pressure.
• Skilled in building and maintaining effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including artists, agents, suppliers, and partner organisations.
• Confident using digital platforms and tools such as Dropbox, Google files, Pinterest, CMS, and social media; willing to learn and use BBC systems including SAP, Smartsheet, Quick Order, and Excel.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Interest in classical music and live music in general.
• An understanding of publishing software eg InDesign and willingness to be trained to use it.
• Knowledge of publication procedures and systems.
• Knowledge of or interest in researching illustrative material relating to classical music and how to obtain it.
• Ability to balance creative aspirations with resource and cost constraints.

Job Closing Date:29 September 2025

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• As a Senior Journalist on the Money and Work digital team, you will write, commission and edit online articles, including news stories which may lead the website, features, analysis, live page posts and explainers. We are looking for an experienced Senior Journalist who is confident in running a news desk and working across a broad range of stories.
• The job will involve working four 10-hour shifts a week including early mornings from 6am and late evenings until 0030, as well as Sundays.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• The Money and Work team aims to make the economy and business engaging and understandable for our audiences. It’s a fun and varied job, where you’ll write, report and edit a huge range of stories, covering anything from the latest interest rate decision, to a drop in the price of cheese, to share and bond price movements to how working from home is becoming less common.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Writing stories for the website, with the ability to bring subjects – which some readers may find dull – to life.
• Running the news desk, staying calm under pressure and making sensible editorial decisions quickly.
• Liaising closely with teams across the BBC, including senior website and broadcast editors, as well as giving journalists detailed briefs to deliver on stories, so excellent communication skills are a must.
• Sub editing stories with an eye for detail and clickable headlines.
• Reading and making sense of company results and financial market movements, and being able to pick out a strong top line that will resonate with a non-business specialist.
• Come up with original ideas for stories as well as how to treat them, and suggest and carry out interviews with relevant people to make our business stories distinctive.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Excellent and demonstrable knowledge of business and economics in the UK and globally
• At least five years’ experience of writing and editing fast-paced, breaking business news for digital audiences with attention to accuracy, context and tone
• Proven ability to cut through jargon, and make complex stories appealing and understandable to a broad business audience
• Experience of writing in a variety of formats to tight deadlines from breaking news and explainers to live page posts and analysis
• Proven ability to come up with angles and approaches to the big stories of the day that will help us reach new and diverse audiences
• Excellent editorial judgement and understanding of the BBC’s editorial values

Job Closing Date:01/10/2025

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JOB PURPOSE

• Are you passionate about supporting teams to get things done and experienced in business support? As a Business Coordinator you play a vital role in enabling Sounds teams to deliver content and projects to help grow our digital audio listening. You will book new freelancers, raise payments, help new starters and organise team initiatives. It’s a great fit for someone with strong experience in a range of business activities who enjoys responding to different ad hoc requests to enable the smooth running of the department.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• This role joins a small business team at the centre of Sounds, so is a fantastic opportunity to apply your existing business skills to a new area and support one of the BBC’s priority goals to grow digital audiences. You will be in a position to get to know the whole operation and explore areas of interest. Development of our staff, flexible working and valuing each other’s contributions are important for our team culture.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Book freelancers using Smartbook (the BBC’s freelance booking system), including working out the correct contract type to use
• Raise payments including purchase orders via Ariba system and chase up invoices
• Maintain accurate information for the team, including logging costs on Excel budget tracker
• Lead coordination of our starters and leavers process to ensure people start in Sounds smoothly
• Office support in London including logging any issues with equipment/furniture; receiving or sending equipment out to staff via Post room
• Support with ad hoc staff events and team initiatives
• Respond to ad hoc business support queries, proactively tracking down the solution

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Strong recent experience of booking freelancers using Smartbook (or similar freelance booking system); understanding of the different freelance contract types
• Strong recent experience of raising purchase orders using Ariba system (or similar purchase order system)
• Organised, with ability to prioritise own workload effectively
• Proactive – able to spot issues, respond quickly when needed and work through to resolve
• Track record showing high attention to detail and accuracy, with experience working with budgets using Excel
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to build good working relationships
• Good communication skills both orally and in writing

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Interest in audio
• Able to think creatively in response to changing needs
• Experience of handling sensitive data
• Ability to use own initiative with minimal supervision
• Experience of office software packages 

Job Closing Date:28th September 2025