Senior Communications Specialist - MRM

For those passionate about media and broadcasting, it’s a chance to contribute to the BBC’s public purpose while developing valuable experience across high-profile communications and issues management. Alongside excellent training and mentoring, the role offers the opportunity to broaden your skills and advance your career in public relations.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• You will take charge of a busy press desk on a rota basis, answering questions on all aspects of the BBC. It could be a content issue, policy decision, or reputational matter. Either way, you’ll work with executives and publicity colleagues to oversee communications to the media, prepare statements and releases, brief senior management, and coordinate communications activity.
• You’ll have a first-rate news sense and be full of ideas on creative ways to tell a positive story about the BBC.
• The Corporate Press Office has specific responsibility for handling the media on the BBC’s corporate areas, such as the Director-General’s work, Charter Review, editorial policy, complaints and reviews, HR matters, and diversity and inclusion.
• It also provides a coordinating role for all the BBC’s communications from teams including TV and BBC iPlayer, Radio and BBC Sounds, News and Online.

Your Skills And Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Proactive and reactive publicity experience
• Outstanding news sense / judgement
• Experience managing people
• Experience delivering digital communications

Desirable:

• Experience of handling crises and effecting responses at a high-profile organisation.
• Knowledge and/or experience of the media/broadcasting environment an advantage.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Close date: 10 September 2026

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge, and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.