Come and help transform the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
Robin Pembrooke
Director, News Product & Systems
If you’re looking for a new challenge in 2017, there are a number of fantastic new opportunities to join the team working to digitally transform the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service.
The World Service is an extraordinary and unique organisation; it is the world’s largest international broadcaster, reaching over 320 million people every week on Radio, TV and Online in .
In November we announced the β—βwhich presents a huge, yet complex, technical challenge to launch new broadcast and digital services in a further 11 languages. The programme is called World 2020; we will be establishing new broadcast infrastructure, and updating our news gathering and production processes as more journalists are hired in Africa, Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
As the service expands we are looking to digitally transform how we operate and deliver content to users. There is a massive shift in consumption of news to mobile phones, and this means we need to create and publish our content in new ways, both on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ websites and apps, as well as social media platforms that are being used by audiences in the countries in which we are expanding.
We already have a fantastic team of designers, developers, product managers and testers who have expertise in deploying digital products responsively in 27 languages, but we are looking to expand the team to allow us to meet the new challenges of the World 2020 programme.
The existing ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic responsive website
New projects will include scaling our publishing solutions for messenger based platforms, and taking some of the recent innovations prototyped by into full production.
If you have a passion for news, for languages technology and digital innovation, and a belief in the impact we can have together through the World Service, we would love to hear from you. We have vacancies in the following roles:
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- Testers
- UX Designers
- Business Analysts
The roles are based mainly in London in New Broadcasting House, co-located with many of the journalists creating content and driving the editorial innovations that are part of the World 2020 programme.
We will be running a first round of interviews in January, so do get in touch with your CV if you would like to be considered for one of the roles. Send emails to Laura.Rowley@bbc.co.uk.
This is a great opportunity to join a team that is embarked on a unique global programme of change. We look forward to hearing from you.