Job title: Non-Executive Director, Content Board
Company: Ofcom
Job description: Closing Date: 27/11/2023
Group: Corporate Group
Management Level:
Job Type: Non-Executive Director (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 27th November, and therefore we advise getting your application in no later than midnight on Sunday 26th November.
About Ofcom
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 and online safety throughout the United Kingdom.
Purpose of the role:
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape policy in a fast-changing digital world. 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 public service media and the wider sectors that we regulate. With the media market becoming more complex and competitive, Ofcom is increasingly needing to find solutions to the new regulatory problems arising, not just for public service media but also for subscription VOD and online services. Ofcom’s Content Board plays a key role in delivering this work and in helping shape future approaches to regulation.
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, non-executive directors and drawn from diverse backgrounds across the UK. We want to attract a wide range of applicants to provide a good balance of skills and relevant sector experience on the Content Board in order to create a diversity of perspective and independence of thought and decision-making.
Essential Skills and Knowledge:
We are seeking to recruit one new non-executive member with relevant expertise and many of the following skills to join the Content Board. No previous experience of being a non-executive member is necessary.
- Demonstrably expert understanding of the business and economic principles underpinning the broadcast sector in the digital environment;
- digital or new media experience gained at a senior level, with an appreciation of the fast-changing nature of these sectors and the challenges they can pose;
- an excellent understanding of the principles and practice of content regulation, the future regulatory regimes for online safety, 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 UK’s 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; demonstrable understanding of Ofcom’s need to make independent judgements under pressure; and
- a track record of good editorial judgement and decision-making at a senior level is desirable.
Further Information:
The time commitment is four days a month, including attending approximately six formal meetings a year of the full Content Board.
To apply and be considered for interview stage, your application must include a CV and covering letter (2 sides maximum) by the closing date. Your covering letter must give evidence of how you successfully meet the key competencies (listed above). When you upload your CV you are able to go back and upload further documents, your cover letter should be uploaded here.
We intend to hold interviews during the week commencing 8th January 2024.
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 . Content Board Members are required to act in accordance with the Board’s .
Ofcom is a forward-thinking, inclusive employer and recognises the value of diversity to truly make communications work for everyone. Our vision is to ensure Ofcom is a place where our people can work hard and be themselves. We aim to recruit from the widest pool of candidates possible – no matter your social background, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. We strive to be representative of the whole of the UK and our aim is to be an employer of choice for everyone.
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Expected salary:
Location: London
Job date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:16:28 GMT
