Script Editor; EastEnders

CONTRACT TYPE: 2 X Permanent / Continuing

DEPARTMENT: BBC Drama Productions - East Enders

LOCATION:

BBC Elstree, Borehamwood – Hybrid, minimum 3 days in the office.

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: DOE + London Weighting at £5,441 - depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Join the multi-award-winning East Enders team as a Script Editor and help shape powerful, character‑driven stories that reflect real life. You’ll manage complex scripts across multiple episodes, collaborate with writers, and bring editorial flair to one of Britain’s most iconic dramas. If you’re a confident communicator with sharp editorial instincts and a passion for the show, this is your chance to make a lasting impact on a national institution.

• Advise on all script‑related matters, managing relationships between writers and production staff, and ensuring writers have access to editorial briefs and necessary expertise.
• Balance creative and production needs, representing the writer’s interests while ensuring their consent to major script changes and advocating for them in their absence.
• Generate creative solutions and long‑term story ideas, ensuring scripts are editorially sound and resolving any policy concerns with the Script Producer.
• Conduct legal and editorial checks during script preparation, including brand, copyright, libel, and defamation reviews to ensure compliance.
• Monitor episode filming, remaining available to address dialogue or story concerns as they arise on set.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven experience as a Script Editor on TV drama series – Soap, higher‑end continuing dramas like Death in Paradise or Waterloo Road or HETV with extensive knowledge and passion for East Enders.
• Strong track record of working effectively with both new and experienced writers under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Experience of confidently building relationships, communicating and negotiating with multiple departments.
• In‑depth knowledge of East Enders storylines and characters.

DESIRED BUT NOT

REQUIRED:

• Solid understanding of copyright law, Writers Guild agreements, and contracts, with awareness of their legal implications for production processes.
• Conscious of the financial impact of editorial decisions, ensuring choices align with both creative and budgetary considerations.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note:

If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks;
Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.

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