BBC Careers

At its heart, our Worldwide Aware Initiative has five key branches which are central to our corporate responsibility programme:

Respect Earth

We want to be bold in our approach and have an environment strategy which has inspired initiatives such as the recent Travel Policy.

Our team of Environment Champions have made a valuable contribution to our sustainability programme. We have been working hard to make our company a more sustainable place to work. In the Media Village, London, we now send zero waste to landfill and, globally, we are carbon-neutral for all our buildings and travel.  

In Australia, the team have run a number of green initiatives and are now operating a bin-less office.  There have also been various internal green activities in our New York office, including double-sided printing and giving a reusable plastic cup for water to each staff member.

BBC Worldwide is a long-term partner of WWF and we continue to lead the way with our FSC paper achievements for books and magazines.

Care About a Fair Deal

This initiative aims to ensure the highest possible ethical standards in our business and the fair treatment of everyone involved in our supply chain.

It is essential that the way we trade (and the way our licensees and suppliers trade) is honest, principled and adheres to our stringent guidelines. We have a dedicated team working on Ethical Sourcing, and an active and meaningful programme of factory and labour-standards assessments is in place in licensing, magazines, and Lonely Planet.

We aim to support your understanding of the issues through a series of ‘Care About a Fair Deal’ workshops and to incorporate best practice across all areas of the business.

Delight in Our Differences

This celebrates the diversity of BBC Worldwide and the talent of our people, encouraging us all to embrace being part of such a multicultural organisation.

There are some great initiatives going on, such as the BBC Magazines Catch 22 programme which gives young talent from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to gain journalism experience.  We also work hard to make sure our products are widely accessible to consumers, through subtitling and audio navigation on our DVDs and a large-print range of books.

Enrich local life

Wherever our offices are in the world, we have a responsibility to our local community: to share our knowledge, our special skills and sometimes just our time. A number of staff in London have been volunteering at the Jack Tizard Special School in White City in London. The volunteers spend one lunch hour a week assisting children you have profound and multiple disabilities, and the school says it has benefited enormously from our participation.

In Australia, our team donates blood to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service every 12 weeks, and the New York office contributes to the New York Cares charity through canned goods and coat drives.

Inspire trust

BBC Editorial Standards are at the heart of everything we do; across every business, in every territory. A series of incidents from 'Queengate' to the Ross-Brand affair have shown that we must always be vigilant, and we need to open up editorial debates at all levels of the organisation and learn from each other’s best practice.