Responsibilities

• Manage seven-day-a-week press office operation.
• Manage and oversee the BBC Local media team.
• Act as a key point of referral for complex, sensitive, and high-risk enquiries.
• Provide strategic advice to the BBC’s senior and executive leadership.

Requirements

• Proven track record and experience at a senior level within communications, in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Strong evidence of creative achievement, showing ideas, clear thinking and problem solving.
• Demonstrable success in leading, motivating, and developing a team.
• High level of interpersonal skills, with the credibility and influence to advise senior leaders and engage confidently with external stakeholders.
• Proven high-level understanding of communications thinking, practices, and techniques, including audience reach and social media.