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The role and responsibilities of the CEO

Chief Executive Officer:
BBFC Report to: President of the BBFC

Purpose:
To provide strategic and operational leadership for the BBFC enabling it to fulfil its statutory, business, and public-facing obligations.

 

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Leadership and Strategy

  • Formulate and implement the vision, strategy, and values for the BBFC.
  • Lead the organisation with a clear strategic direction, ensuring goals are aligned and effectively executed.

Policy and Compliance

  • Work with the Statutory Classifiers to formulate policy regarding the classification of films, video works, websites and to maintain published guidelines.

Classification Guidelines

  • Oversee classification decisions and ensure that all statutory obligations, particularly those under the Video Recordings Act 1984, are fulfilled.

Governance and Advisory

  • Serve as the principal adviser to the BBFC Board to ensure that they can discharge their statutory obligations, governance and legal responsibilities.
  • Ensure the Board has access to specialist advice when required.
  • Provide guidance on critical decisions and policies impacting the organisation.

Public Trust and Engagement

  • Uphold and enhance public trust in the BBFC’s classification decisions
  • Represent the BBFC as its public face, overseeing relationships with key stakeholders, media, and the public.

Operational, Risk Management and Financial Oversight

  • Oversee the BBFC’s budgets and ensure financial sustainability and solvency, effectively managing and mitigating the potential operational and financial risks associated with R&D and the introduction of new products.
  • Deliver financial targets within agreed margins while maintaining efficient operations.

Staff and Culture Leadership

  • Lead and inspire staff, fostering a values-driven culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
  • Embody and champion inclusive leadership to embed equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the organisation.
  • Support efforts to grow the reach of trusted BBFC classification services, the better to support those with responsibilities for children.

Research and Development

  • Oversee research and development initiatives to ensure the BBFC remains forward-looking and relevant in its field.
  • Evaluate strategic initiatives and manage the risks of innovation against the risks of organisational stagnation.

International and External Relations

  • Cultivate and maintain international partnerships and relationships that benefit the BBFC.
  • Build and maintain strategic partnerships that enhance the work of the BBFC.

Additional Duties

  • Carry out other responsibilities as reasonably requested by the President or Board to ensure the proper functioning of the CEO role.

General

  • To show commitment to their own professional development.
  • To undertake anyother duties appropriate to the nature of the post.

 

Person Specification: 

  • Consistent achievement at CEO level, or substantial senior management experience in a public facing organisation in which public confidence and reputation are central to organisational success
  • An understanding of a regulated environment and a track record of excellence in governance
  • Experience of leading organisational adaptation or transformation within a regulated, public-facing or mission-driven environment.
  • Have experience of building a positive and productive relationship with Boards
  • Be able to demonstrate inspiring leadership and motivate teams by example
  • Outstanding ambassadorial and relationship building skills with a wide range of complex stakeholders and success at building trusting and productive partnerships
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to handle the media
  • Demonstrable evidence of linking diversity issues to policy and delivery
  • Experience of working with Government, Parliament and Whitehall
  • Strategic and operational financial experience and commercial awareness
  • The ability to understand the strategic implications of emerging technologies, including AI, and to lead organisations through technological change and drive innovation without losing sight of the organisation core purpose.
  • A commitment and lived experience to the Nolan principles
  • A genuine interest in screen entertainment and recognition of it as an important social, educational and cultural medium.