Executive Editor

• Own content, formats, and distribution

• Directly oversee the Website Editor, Head of Video, and Head of Social, holding each team accountable for quality, reach, engagement, and impact within one editorial strategy.

• Ensure major stories, speeches, campaigns, and political moments are commissioned as complete content packages rather than isolated posts or videos.

• Decide where premium production adds value and where speed, immediacy, and authenticity matter more.

• Ensure strong broadcast and long-form content is intelligently repurposed into clips, explainers, articles, graphics, short-form video, and social assets.

• Encourage disciplined experimentation with programs, presenters, and treatments, scaling what works and stopping what does not.

• Build audiences across every platform

• Ensure content is conceived with distribution and audience behavior in mind from the outset and adapted appropriately for each platform.

• Oversee the website as an authoritative destination for news, video, policy, and political content, encouraging audiences to watch, return, subscribe, register, join, and participate.

• Stay close to changing audience behavior, platform trends, and new forms of media consumption so Reform UK continues to reach audiences wherever they are moving.

Performance and Leadership:

• Establish clear measures of success across programs, video, website, and social, combining editorial judgement with evidence about what audiences watch, read, share, and return to.
• Use audience data and regular performance reviews to inform commissioning, scheduling, formats, staffing, and resource allocation.
• Build a results-based culture that learns quickly from evidence, scales successful formats, and changes or stops activity that consistently underperforms.
• Work closely with the Data & Analytics function to turn audience insight into clear recommendations for senior editors, producers, and party leadership.
• Build strong relationships across Operations, Communications & Media, Campaigns, Press, Data, Membership, Events, and the regional and branch structure.
• Work effectively with senior political figures, understanding their priorities while applying the editorial judgement required to turn political objectives into compelling content.
• Improve forward planning through clear editorial meetings, commissioning processes, shared calendars, and defined ownership, ensuring major initiatives and events have an effective content plan.
• Manage relevant production companies, freelancers, agencies, platform partners, and suppliers, ensuring high standards, value for money, and clear accountability.
• Represent editorial, broadcast, and audience priorities confidently to senior party leadership, making clear recommendations, surfacing risks early, and taking responsibility for delivery.

The Person

We are looking for an outstanding senior editorial and broadcast leader with the judgement, creativity, energy, and operational discipline to build a modern, high-output media operation in a fast-moving political environment.

This is not primarily a technical production role: the successful candidate must understand how excellent television and video are made, lead senior editorial and production teams confidently, and be equally comfortable assessing the political agenda and digital audience performance.

Essential experience and capabilities

• Substantial senior leadership experience in broadcast television, video-led news, current affairs, journalism, media production, or another high-pressure editorial environment.
• Significant experience leading editorial and production teams, including senior editors, producers, and creative or technical staff.
• Strong understanding of the complete television and video production process, with proven experience commissioning high-quality programs and overseeing live output from development through delivery.
• Excellent editorial judgement and news sense, with a strong creative instinct for stories, contributors, treatments, and distinctive repeatable formats.
• Strong understanding of the modern media landscape, with sufficient digital and data fluency to lead website, social, and audience teams and distribute broadcast-quality content effectively across platforms.
• Demonstrable success growing reach and engagement through strong editorial ideas, formats, personalities, or programming.
• Outstanding stakeholder-management and communication skills, including confidence working with senior political figures, journalists, producers, operational leaders, and external partners.
• Highly organized, politically aware, and resilient, with the ability to manage competing priorities, budgets, major projects, and rapid-response demands in a highly scrutinized environment.
• Willingness to be based at Reform UK's Westminster HQ and work flexibly around breaking news, major broadcasts, political events, and campaign periods, including evenings and weekends when required.

Highly desirable

• Senior experience within a national broadcaster, television newsroom, major production company, or substantial video-led media organization.
• Experience launching or substantially developing a television channel, digital video operation, programs, or major new broadcast proposition.
• Experience commissioning long-form interviews, documentaries, studio programs, debates, current-affairs formats, or live events.
• Experience developing on-screen talent and building programs or franchises around distinctive personalities.

Why join Reform UK?

This is an opportunity to build a significant new media operation inside a national political party at a decisive point in its development. The successful candidate will have unusual scope to shape Reform TV, its programs and formats, its production operation, editorial agenda, and wider digital content strategy - and to see the impact of that work at a national scale.