Product Features
Blog
Contact Us
Sign In
Ofcom
,
London, Greater London
Content Board Members - Ofcom
|
|
Job Type: Full-time |
|---|
Overview
Content Board Members – Ofcom Based in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and/or Belfast £Competitive Team Overview Ofcom is the regulator for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, video-on-demand, telecommunications, wireless communications and postal services. These include responsibility for overseeing television and radio broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, including regulating the BBC. The Government has also confirmed new rules on video sharing platforms. This means that these services will need to have measures in place to protect young people from potentially harmful content, and to ensure that all users are protected from hate speech and illegal content. This is an important first step towards protecting people from harmful content online ahead of broader online harms regulation. Ofcom has been providing protection and assurance for audiences across television, radio and video-on-demand for many years. Increasingly however, these issues are set within the wider context of changes in communications markets, and particularly the role of the internet and digital media. As audiences increasingly move online, a key part of our work is to consider the challenges this poses for viewers and listeners and for the sectors that we regulate. Ofcom’s Content Board plays a key role in delivering this work and in helping to shape future approaches to regulation. Purpose of the Role We are seeking to recruit new non-executive members to join the Content Board. This is an exciting time to join us and help shape policy in a fast-changing digital world. The Content Board is a committee of Ofcom’s Main Board and is charged with understanding, analysing and championing the voices and interest of the viewer, the listener and citizen. It examines issues where the citizen interest extends beyond the consumer interest, with a focus on those aspects of the public interest which competition and market forces do not reach. The majority of Content Board Members are part-time and drawn from diverse backgrounds across the UK. We want to attract a wide range of applicants to provide a good balance of skills, diverse backgrounds and relevant sector experience on the Content Board in order to create a diversity of perspective and independence of thought and decision-making. Skills, knowledge and experience We are particularly interested in candidates who have digital or new media experience, with an appreciation of the fast-changing nature of these sectors and the challenges they can pose. We are seeking candidates who have: - A good understanding of the principles and practice of content regulation, preferably gained from the industry side - An excellent understanding of broadcasting policy and regulatory issues, the UK media policy landscape and relevant international context - An understanding of the needs of consumers and citizens, and an ability to work well with colleagues from the devolved nations on policy and consumer issues - Sound judgement and decision-making to ensure successful delivery in a highly complex organisation - Strong communication skills to make an effective contribution to the discussions of a high-level public body - Personal integrity of a high order and a demonstrable understanding of Ofcom’s need to make independent judgements under pressure - A track record of good editorial judgement and decision-making at a senior level in broadcasting is also desirable Further Information Potential or actual conflicts of interest must be declared and discussed at interview. Applicants must have personal integrity of a high order and ensure that their conduct accords with the 7 principles of public life. Content Board Members are required to act in accordance with the Board’s Code of Conduct. The time commitment is four days a month, including attending approximately six formal meetings a year of the full Content Board. Interviews will be held on 28th April and the morning of 30th April 2020. To apply, you need to submit a CV and a covering letter outlining your responses to the key competencies for the role (outlined above in the Competencies section) which should be presented in an objective, consistent, focused manner. Failure to demonstrate how you successfully meet each of the competencies specified above will have a direct bearing on whether you will be shortlisted to interview. As a Disability Confident employer, applicants who self-identify as disabled or with a long-term condition and who meet the minimum criteria for the role will be invited for an interview. To apply for the role of Content Board Member, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. Other organisations may call this role Board Member, Broadcasting Board Member, NED, Non-Executive Director, Independent Board Member, Director, or Committee Member.