Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 8, 2011 18:25:56 GMT
See if you can figure out what the jobs that these titles are advertising for actually involve.
A selection of recent BBC job adverts
Don't know? Well don't feel too bad, neither does one of the BBC bosses, herself earning £385k pa.
Notice the stock answer, whenever the BBC are questioned on the high salaries they award themselves; ' we are paying significantly less than the market for the people to manage it.'
Since their titles are unheard of in the private sector, we'll never know.
A selection of recent BBC job adverts
Don't know? Well don't feel too bad, neither does one of the BBC bosses, herself earning £385k pa.
Notice the stock answer, whenever the BBC are questioned on the high salaries they award themselves; ' we are paying significantly less than the market for the people to manage it.'
Since their titles are unheard of in the private sector, we'll never know.
The £385k BBC boss who has no idea what her top managers do for their money
By Paul Revoir
Last updated at 12:21 PM on 8th October 2011
The BBC was dragged into a fresh row over non-jobs last night following a senior executives admission she has no idea what a £58,000-a-year Decision Support Analyst actually does.
Chief operating officer Caroline Thomson was asked on air why the Corporation was still advertising a vacancy for the highly paid post after announcing cuts that will mean 2,000 redundancies.
Appearing flustered, the executive who earned ?385,000 last year tried to defend the move by saying the BBC needed good managers but then conceded: I don't know what that person actually does.
Miss Thomson's comments have angered rank-and-file staff in core areas such as journalism and documentary making who face job losses and earn far less than £58,000 a year.
And critics point out that, despite pulling millions of pounds from its programming budget, the corporation is still recruiting for its army of advisers and strategists.
Among jobs the BBC is currently or has recently advertised are a ?Deputy Head High Risk, an Accountability Assistant, two Thematic Advisers, one for governance and one for health, and a range of diversity advisers.
Miss Thomson's candid admission, on Newsnight on Thursday, comes despite claims by the corporation last year that it was banning baffling job titles.
Presenter Kirsty Wark said to the BBC executive: Can I just read you one job advert today, salary £58,000.
This is for a Decision Support Analyst to support the decision making in the BBC workplace. Really? We actually can't make decisions at the BBC without a support analyst?
Miss Thomson replied: I mean I am not justifying the job title but the BBC has got to be well-managed and it needs good managers and we are paying significantly less than the market for the people to manage it.
When Miss Wark claimed the job advert implied the BBC's management was not very good, Miss Thomson replied: I don't know what that person actually does but what I do say is that you want the BBC to be a well-managed organisation.
Her remarks followed another embarrassing comment, on Radio 4's PM programme earlier in the day, when she appeared to compare closing a BBC channel to the NHS shutting of a hospital.
Reacting to the non-jobs row, Conservative MP Philip Davies said: I am like Caroline Thomson, I don't know what they do either.
I think they need to look at this kind of thing. If they are saying they need to make cuts to programmes then it seems bizarre that they don't need to make them to these jobs.
A BBC news source said: What's most shocking to journalists on the shop floor is not that the job exists and not that it pays £58,000, but that we have a management who are not surprised when they see very experienced journalists earning just £21,000, the source said.
Another source added: This person costs twice as much as an ordinary producer on the news channel would earn and they are cutting those. The BBC loves these titles and in the jobs pages of the staff magazine there are always more management administration jobs than anything else.
Last year it was claimed by the BBC that all senior management positions would have to pass a clarity and common sense test after a list of top decision makers in 2009 included bizarre job titles such as Organisational Development and Change Director and Director of Audiences.
By Paul Revoir
Last updated at 12:21 PM on 8th October 2011
The BBC was dragged into a fresh row over non-jobs last night following a senior executives admission she has no idea what a £58,000-a-year Decision Support Analyst actually does.
Chief operating officer Caroline Thomson was asked on air why the Corporation was still advertising a vacancy for the highly paid post after announcing cuts that will mean 2,000 redundancies.
Appearing flustered, the executive who earned ?385,000 last year tried to defend the move by saying the BBC needed good managers but then conceded: I don't know what that person actually does.
Miss Thomson's comments have angered rank-and-file staff in core areas such as journalism and documentary making who face job losses and earn far less than £58,000 a year.
And critics point out that, despite pulling millions of pounds from its programming budget, the corporation is still recruiting for its army of advisers and strategists.
Among jobs the BBC is currently or has recently advertised are a ?Deputy Head High Risk, an Accountability Assistant, two Thematic Advisers, one for governance and one for health, and a range of diversity advisers.
Miss Thomson's candid admission, on Newsnight on Thursday, comes despite claims by the corporation last year that it was banning baffling job titles.
Presenter Kirsty Wark said to the BBC executive: Can I just read you one job advert today, salary £58,000.
This is for a Decision Support Analyst to support the decision making in the BBC workplace. Really? We actually can't make decisions at the BBC without a support analyst?
Miss Thomson replied: I mean I am not justifying the job title but the BBC has got to be well-managed and it needs good managers and we are paying significantly less than the market for the people to manage it.
When Miss Wark claimed the job advert implied the BBC's management was not very good, Miss Thomson replied: I don't know what that person actually does but what I do say is that you want the BBC to be a well-managed organisation.
Her remarks followed another embarrassing comment, on Radio 4's PM programme earlier in the day, when she appeared to compare closing a BBC channel to the NHS shutting of a hospital.
Reacting to the non-jobs row, Conservative MP Philip Davies said: I am like Caroline Thomson, I don't know what they do either.
I think they need to look at this kind of thing. If they are saying they need to make cuts to programmes then it seems bizarre that they don't need to make them to these jobs.
A BBC news source said: What's most shocking to journalists on the shop floor is not that the job exists and not that it pays £58,000, but that we have a management who are not surprised when they see very experienced journalists earning just £21,000, the source said.
Another source added: This person costs twice as much as an ordinary producer on the news channel would earn and they are cutting those. The BBC loves these titles and in the jobs pages of the staff magazine there are always more management administration jobs than anything else.
Last year it was claimed by the BBC that all senior management positions would have to pass a clarity and common sense test after a list of top decision makers in 2009 included bizarre job titles such as Organisational Development and Change Director and Director of Audiences.
