Senior Head of Global Communications

Position description

Job Reference: 22780
Band: F
Salary: Up to £115,000 plus bonus and £5319 London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent 
Location: Office Base is London Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
 

ABOUT BBC STUDIOS

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. 

 

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III.

 

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. 

 

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.
 

THE ROLE

Reporting into the Chief Communications & Marketing Officer and with a dotted line into Director of Internal Communications & Engagement for BBC Group, you will be responsible for for telling the story of BBC Studios, building and maintaining its corporate reputation, both externally (through media relations, industry speaker events and stakeholder affairs) across broad areas, and internally, ensuring we are effectively engaging our teams in our strategies and our winning moments, helping to build a strong culture within BBC Studios.  

 

You’ll also work closely with colleagues within BBC Group, collaborating on internal communications campaigns and activity that are pertinent to all employees. You’ll act as a key communications adviser to senior Executives and line manage a team, delegating day-to-day task management (as appropriate).

Key Responsibilities

• Set and be accountable for delivery of communication strategies relating to BBC Studios as a business which help to promote its reputation as THE home of the world’s most powerful stories.
• Ensure that external and internal narratives and storytelling (using the BBC Studios Mother Story as a basis) are aligned and mutually enhancing – ie using external comms moments to drive internal pride and engagement, using internal/staff stories which show our achievements to drive external reputation
• Provide strategic, practical and creative direction and managerial leadership to senior leaders across the business, advising and assisting relevant stakeholders and senior management as appropriate.
• Lead and directly manage the team, to ensure strong performance. Manage, motivate, encourage and develop a professional and multi-disciplined team, ensuring staff are motivated through objectives which are set and assessed on a regular basis and which support the departmental goals and objectives.
• Support BBC Studios transformation programmes to make the chase for change and understanding and buy-in for key programmes across the business.
• Develop internal communication and engagement strategies in response to the BBC survey.
• Collaboration on and implementation of shared BBC Group-wide activity where required (ie around the BBC Charter activity)
• Act as a key point of contact for colleagues within the broader BBC organization, including the Corporate Affairs Team and Internal Communications teams to ensure alignment and shared planning where appropriate.
• Provide reputation and issues management for BBC Studios across a broad area including, where relevant, handling issues outside their own area; working in close conjunction with other senior leaders within the BBC.
• Represent the BBC’s interests at a senior level amongst internal and external stakeholders; may represent Communications on a relevant board or group.
• Act as a key point of referral within the team for sensitive or difficult enquiries.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the allocated budget within established and agreed guidelines.
• Ensure systems are in place to evaluate impact of work and distribute best practice and lessons to learn.
• Support the running of social media channels and assist with the production of assets for use online and in social media.
  

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

 

• Proven record gained at a senior level in their relevant profession which needs to include relevant external comms experience including media management, issues management as well as internal comms experience.
• Strong evidence of creative achievement, with ideas and the ability to think laterally, finding pragmatic and creative solutions to issues.
• Record of success in leading and motivating a team, using resources effectively with limited financial and other resources.
• Excellent professional judgment and ability to identify and address emerging issues.
• A high level of interpersonal skills.
• A wide network of contacts, media and other key influencers.
• High level of proven experience understanding of current marketing and communications thinking, practice and techniques, including audience research and social media.
• Strong IT skills, with the ability to adapt to new IT systems.

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

 

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

 

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

 

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on [email protected].

 

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

 

• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
• A defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%; and life assurance (at 4 times annual salary), eligibility for discounted dental, health care, gym and much more through salary sacrifice
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation

 

 

 

Application instructions

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