Deputy Director BFBS Radio & Live Events
Description
BFBS has an exciting opportunity for a talented leader with strong operational skills, demonstrable strategic thinking and significant career experience within the radio industry to join us in an important senior role.
Supporting our Director of Broadcasting and Entertainment, you’ll be a seasoned manager able to provide clear direction and take day-to-day responsibility for a strong radio management team, 70 + staff and additional freelance suppliers. You’ll head the operational delivery of our national radio brand, our second service BFBS Radio 2, BFBS Gurkha Radio and more than 20 local stations across the UK and in British military bases overseas, driving the vision to continue to serve existing audiences and reach new listeners.
- You’ll be used to dealing with complex problems, tight budgets & timescales and competing priorities, so analytical thinking and confident judgement are essential skills. You’ll be an excellent communicator with real world experience in multiple stakeholder relations management, with a positive approach and a passion for your craft and our audiences. Looking after our people, developing their on-air performance, managing remote teams, and taking responsibility for their careers and moves around the world will also form significant elements of the role.
- You’ll also be a key collaborator in designing future strategy, motivating your teams to align and evolve operations against a rapidly changing landscape.
- We’ll expect you to understand audience habit and trends as well as the technical developments available to support future digital and linear audio programme making.
- You’ll have a strong editorial background, be used to developing creative content ideas, commissioning where necessary and able to feed back to staff and suppliers on their performance and content.
- We want you to innovate, streamline and be a champion of new ways of working. You’ll also understand the regulatory landscape, be a confident negotiator and ideally, familiar with third party rights agreements.
- You’ll also use your management experience to support a small team who provide live shows and experiential events to the British military and to BFBS’s radio stations, to raise morale and have fun with audiences.
We’re a charity, so it’s important you share our common values in going above and beyond every day to make a difference to those we serve, recognising the value of public service broadcasting, connecting communities and supporting the morale and wellbeing of the armed forces and their families.
If you have extensive experience in a management role leading multiple radio stations simultaneously, have delivered a broad editorial brief focussed on music, entertainment & speech and can show us you have a wealth of audio industry experience & advanced people skills, we’d love to hear from you.
The role is hybrid, based at our network centre near Gerrard’s Cross in Buckinghamshire with some home-working. The successful candidate will also be willing to undertake short term, regular travel in the UK and overseas.
The salary will reflect the seniority and complexity of the role.
For an informal conversation and more information, please contact Nicky Ness, Director of Broadcasting & Entertainment at nicky.ness@bfbs.com.
Closing date: Friday 17th March 2023
Interview dates: Monday 27th March and Tuesday 28th March, in person at BFBS, Chalfont Grove, Narcot Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, SL9 8TN.
Why work for us?
BFBS is an exciting and rewarding place to work. We are committed to looking after our people, helping them to develop their skills and build successful careers.
For further detail and to apply, please go to https://about.bfbs.com/deputy-director-bfbs-radio-live-events
Requirements
Experience
- An experienced leader and motivator, who acts as a role model to teams and colleagues.
- An experienced editorial leader with a strong track record in making content and compliance judgements, including full understanding of Ofcom regulation.
- A persuasive communicator, able to engage and
- influence teams, as well as senior stakeholders, establish effective and collaborative relations across departments, and with external agencies/stakeholders where required.
- Aware of current markets, trends and issues within the broadcasting industry and wider media and event sector.
- Experience in succeeding within complex environments, navigating conflicting views and priorities; proven ability to interpret complicated information and make/communicate decisions accordingly.
- Leading multiple radio stations simultaneously
Qualifications
- Media-related qualification and/or extensive proven track record (extensive, experience in management roles)
Skills & Aptitudes
- Leadership
- Collaboration & influencing
- Coaching and developing
- Managing change
- Strategic thinking
- Proactive in driving continual improvement with teams
- First class writing and verbal communication skills
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Results orientated, confident and decisive
- Well organised and able to prioritise complex and conflicting demands
- Shares knowledge and demonstrates authentic BFBS core values
- Industry expertise including emerging trends and opportunities for innovation
Knowledge
- Knowledgeable in the way in which audio output is identified, cleared, created, complied, curated, managed, distributed, reviewed and improved.
- Knowledge of output across the UK audio environment including podcasting and other non-linear opportunities.
- Experience in aligning teams around an agreed vision
- Sound understanding of audio scheduling, production and a proactive interest in emerging technologies
- First hand complex channel building, scheduling and content curation experience, including with music
- Track record of working in a complex environment
- Sharp editorial judgement and experience of related rights and compliance matters
- Experience in working with niche audiences and driving initiatives to better supply their content need
Personal Qualities
- Strong public service ethos
- Inspires confidence, team orientated, collaborative
- Builds strong relationships
- Sees opportunity in change
- Reacts positively in challenging circumstances
- Attention to detail
- Seeks continuous professional development
Circumstances
- Prepared to undergo security check
- Sign the Official Secrets Act
- Full driving licence
- A minimum of 2 days a week to be spent at HQ at Chalfont Grove
We would be grateful if you can also complete the Equal Opportunities form and submit as part of your application.All applicants must be able to demonstrate current eligibility to work in the UK.
Benefits & Perks
What we offer
We offer a competitive employee benefits package that has been designed to support your health and well-being, and care for you financially. This includes a generous holiday entitlement, flexible/hybrid working, family friendly policies and an employee assistance programme.
We are a modern, vibrant and forward-thinking organisation and attract talented people to join and develop at BFBS, where we strive to create a diverse and collaborative working environment where everyone can contribute, learn and be themselves. We have a number of networks run by our community of colleagues, including Wellbeing, and Diversity and Inclusion.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate current eligibility to work in the UK.
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays, that increases to 27 days after 3 years
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Group Personal Pension Scheme, with 6% employer contribution
- Subsidised Private Medical Cover and access to free 24-hour virtual GP service for you and your family
- Employee Assistance Programme, a team of Mental Health First Aiders and a pledge to the Mindful Employer Charter
- Employee Benefits Hub to access discounts on online and high street brands
- Flexible working, to include hybrid
- Free, secure parking on most sites (includes Chalfont)
For more information on our benefits, please go to [https://about.bfbs.com/careers](https://about.bfbs.com/careers
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BFBS is a military charity and broadcaster that informs, entertains, connects and champions the UK Armed Forces. We bring entertainment, news, sport and information services to the military, their families and veterans worldwide. We spread happiness and keep people in touch, building morale among the military overseas – offering them a valuable connection to life back home, and a way to share experiences and build communities. We are the home of military content, championing the military by keeping their activities in the public eye on our Forces digital channels and on our national TV channel. We are a modern, vibrant and forward thinking organisation and attract talented people to join and develop at BFBS, where we strive to create an inclusive and collaborative working environment where everyone can contribute, learn and be themselves.