Description

Closing Date: 17-Sep-2024

THE ROLE
Package Description
Job Reference: 17990
Band: D
Salary: £39,800 - £47,126 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
London is a patch like no other serving one of the largest and most diverse cities in Europe; covering some of the biggest stories. BBC London prides itself on producing original journalism that reflects the many communities we serve. Our 6.30 evening programme, on BBC One, is regularly the most watched TV news programme in the capital. Our online stories are amongst the most read and our social media posts reach millions of people. We’ve always worked collaboratively across TV, Radio and Online and are committed to delivering impactful content that travels even further on all our platforms.
We are now looking for a Senior (production) Journalist to join our team on twelve month contract/attachment. The ideal candidate will already have considerable experience of working in a busy multi-platform, live newsroom environment. You will be no stranger to tackling big stories, working through logistics and editorial challenges and be confident outputting live TV programmes in the gallery. While a large part of this role is TV focussed you will also spend time planning content that will be delivered to all our platforms. The successful candidate will ideally have some previous leadership experience.
BBC London strives to create an inclusive working culture and aims to give our team opportunities to develop in their careers with the multimedia skills they need to flourish.
Main Responsibilities
Our Senior Journalists (SJs) cover a range of roles and responsibilities including; planning our next day’s output, producing our late and weekend TV bulletins, as well as working closely alongside our Assistant Editors to help shape our flagship 6.30 evening programme. For the right candidate there’s also scope to ‘act-up’ and edit the 6.30, as well as working of-rota on special editorial projects. As part of the Local Value for All aims our SJs play an important role in liaising with all our teams and other parts of the BBC to ensure that our content travels further. Some of our SJs already have the transferable skills needed to be able work on multiple platforms. We welcome candidates with a range of experience and a good understanding of how we can maximise our offering to create impact and reach underserved audiences.
Are you the right candidate?
You’ll already work in a multiplatform newsroom environment and have considerable live gallery output experience.
You will know what makes a good story, rooted in London and the surrounding area and know how to develop the editorial to suit the needs of all our platforms.
You will have sound editorial judgement and a good working knowledge of media law and be an excellent communicator and problem solver.
You will also have experience of working independently and be confident leading small teams.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.