Deputy Director, BBC Policy
- Public sector
- London
- 18/04/2024
- £75000.00 /yearly
- Full Time & Permanent
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You will be joining a dynamic environment at an exciting time, providing strong leadership and direction to a dynamic and well-regarded team. Alongside leading the day-to-day relationship with and policy regarding the BBC and S4C (the publicly-funded Welsh language broadcaster), this role will also focus in particular on a number of very high-priority projects. These include: ensuring effective implementation of the findings of the Mid-Term Review of the BBCs governance and regulation; concluding the DCMS-led review of the BBCs future financing; and, the significant preparations for and running of the next BBC Charter Review.
You will be able quickly to grasp and drive complex policy issues, have good judgement skills and demonstrate political awareness. You will work closely with policy and analytical teams in DCMS, Private Office, Special Advisers and Press Office, as well as with a range of other government departments. This is also a portfolio with considerable interest from No10, HM Treasury, FCDO, Ofcom (the independent communications regulator) and, unsurprisingly, the broadcasters themselves. You will therefore need to be adept at providing clear and considered advice to ministers and at managing important stakeholder relations.
Desirable Skills:
Commercial Experience.
Understanding of broadcasting industry.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
DCMS operates a hybrid working policy whereby individuals are required to spend at least 60% of their working hours at their hub location and the remaining 40% from home. Occasional travel to other hubs may be required.
To apply for this post, please send us the following documents no later than 23:55 on Sunday 19 May
2024 via the CS Jobs portal:
For the shortlist, we will assess your experience and select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.
The panel will assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit with the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the essential requirements and desirable skills section of this pack. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Feedback
Please note you will only receive feedback if you reach the interview stage. Following interview, all candidates will receive a score along with some short written feedback on your performance at interview.
If shortlisted, you will be invited to a Staff Engagement Exercise: A structure exercise which involves shortlisted candidates facilitating a discussion with a selection of staff from the Department on a given topic. The exercise will take place via Google Meet.
Interview
The interview process will assess behaviours, experience and will include a presentation.
The behaviours to be tested at interview are:
● Seeing the Big Picture
● Communicating and Influencing
● Making Effective Decisions
● Leadership
● Working Together
As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.
Your interview will take place, in person, at 100 Parliament Street.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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