Job Description
With a monthly circulation of over 20,000 and a readership of 240,000, BBC Music Magazine is the world’s most popular classical music magazine, and can boast a truly international reach. Our expanding website achieves an average of 700,000 page views per month – and sometimes significantly more. While the majority of our audience hails in equal parts from the UK and the US, a quarter of our magazine and online readership is based in wider Europe and Asia.
BBC Music Magazine publishes 26 pages of reviews in every issue (13 a year). We are looking for a full-time Reviews Editor to curate, collate, edit, sub-edit and proof all the reviews in the magazine, seeing them from commissioning to layout and finally on to print.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Required skills
Essential:
- A broad knowledge of classical music
- Previous experience of working in an editorial role (print or online)
- Examples of published written work (print or online)
- Organisational skills: this is key to this role, along with the ability to multi-task, work to a deadline and under pressure.
- Experience of working in a team. The BBC Music Magazine team is a small group that works closely; you would be a crucial part of that
- People skills and relationship management. You will represent BBC Music Magazine in meetings with external partners, record labels, distributors and the like. Maintaining good working relationships with the industry, our regular contributors and having a rapport with artists and musicians is an important aspect of the job
Desirable:
- A working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint)
- Experience of working in Adobe InDesign
- Experience of using digital content management systems, social media and an understanding of web optimisation
Benefits
We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.
We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at [email protected].
Flexible and hybrid working
We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.
Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.
We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.
Company benefits include
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in-house learning events
- 4x life assurance
Our values
We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.
To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:
- Be kind
- Always curious
- Be the best we can be
We also have a sustainability strategy that is built on five key pillars: Research, Reduction, Recycling, Responsibility, and Reporting. We take pride in our strong partnerships across our complex supply chain to drive emission reductions. Additionally, our office building, Eagle House, is a zero-waste facility powered by solar and renewable energy.
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