Who are we looking for?
openDemocracy is looking for a skilled editor to help shape a public debate about the future of the BBC. Your role will be to lead openDemocracy's OurBeeb section, to commission and publish articles, develop partnerships and help expand the projects’s readership and impact. This is a part time role, working three days a week.
We need someone with excellent editorial and communication skills and knowledge of the BBC and its history. You must have a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities for public service broadcasting in the 21st century and ideas about how the sector might be transformed in the near future.
This is a key position in a small team, and you will join the project at a critical and exciting moment. The BBC's Charter renewal period will be entering its final stage, with huge ramifications for British media and cultural production. We will be publishing into the online project and also putting together a book, 'What do we want from the BBC?' to broaden the debate at this crucial moment. We may even be in the aftermath of a Leave vote, looking at how public service media might adapt in a UK outside of the EU.
