News Director : EXTEND News Director : EXTEND

BBC Scotland Operations are looking for an experienced news director to work across all of our news & current affairs television output.; Reporting Scotland on BBC 1 Scotland and from January a new programme on BBC Scotland, Reporting Scotland News at 7. You will also have the opportunity to work on our political output, The Sunday Show and Politics Scotland. The news directors within BBC Scotland also have the chance to work on election coverage and special debates.

BBC Scotland News is an automated site utilising the Mosart system to deliver our regular news programmes.

As a result of a studio refresh in line with a new and co-ordinated look across all the BBC's 6.30 programmes, we have been devoting more effort towards graphics-led story telling.

BBC Scotland's News and Current Affairs department delivers high quality journalism on Radio, TV, Online and Social to audiences across Scotland and beyond. We strive to lead the editorial agenda in Scotland, with original stories at the heart of our journalism. We aim to provide high quality analysis and deliver accurate and balanced reporting.

PLEASE NOTE: This role includes shift and weekend working., You will be required to direct live and pre-recorded programmes or inserts for NCA Scotland programmes in automated galleries and on location.

Directors co-ordinate the planning and production of television news programmes to ensure that editorial intentions are met and the highest production standards are maintained. Directors will also support each other by ensuring the automated instructions on scripts and run orders are correct before and during live transmission.

We are looking for a real team player who will be fully engaged with the production teams. You will be expected to contribute to editorial decision making as well as produce ideas, play a key role in production planning and give guidance and advice on story treatment in terms of production value, graphic design and technical viability.

The successful candidate will use traditional craft and technical skills as well as new and developing technologies in order to produce the highest standard of news programmes. This role will be managed by a Lead News Director.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

We're looking for someone who has an excellent eye for making interesting and entertaining television news programmes to an extremely high standard. You should have demonstrable experience in studio or location directing on live or recorded programmes and experience of live and recorded TV production.

You work well within a team to get the best results on air.

You will need to be at ease with broadcast technology, including automation, digital technologies and graphics-led story telling facilities. This must be paired with editorial, visual and aural awareness, creativity and innovation.

You will have a broad knowledge of national and international news & current affairs as well as an awareness of editorial priorities and programme objectives. You also need to have the ability to plan ahead and demonstrate high level of organisation with great attention to detail.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Salary: £40,400-£50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.