Description

Closing Date: 29-Aug-2024

THE ROLE
Package Description
Job Reference: 15755
Band: D
Salary: £40,000 - £52,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent 
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House
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.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.
Job Introduction
BBC News is looking for a senior journalist with a passion for creating new formats to tell stories in text, a spark of digital creativity, a history of innovation, and an empathetic nature to work with colleagues across the newsroom to deliver change together.
The Text Formats team helps develop new storytelling formats across BBC News, be that long-form features, embeddable fact boxes, engaging experiences or browser-bending interactives. We are a small team of journalists who collaborate with correspondents, editors, designers and developers to deliver impact to audiences at a scale far beyond our number.
Our aim is to reinvent how we deliver the news for a modern readership, while maintaining the BBC’s historic standards of journalism. And we need you to help us do it.
Main Responsibilities
Engage with teams across the newsroom to conceive innovative and impactful new formats, with a focus on reaching new audiences. 
Write and publish original journalism in myriad new text formats, across various platforms and in different styles as required.
Use audience insight tools to measure traffic, engagement and promotion of different formats and analyse the data to iterate and improve.
Closely collaborate with designers and developers to conceive and execute new formats, balancing their teams’ interests with wider BBC priorities.
Build strong relationships across the newsroom and story teams to ensure the successful roll-out of new formats, using strong communication skills and working alongside other teams when necessary.
Represent the Text Formats team at editorial meetings and other relevant engagements.
Are you the right person?
Relentlessly creative, comfortable generating your own ideas and brainstorming with your team and others across the newsroom.
Demonstrable experience in researching, conceiving, commissioning, and editing creative new storytelling formats with a strong focus on innovation and impact.
Experience in multi-disciplinary projects, including collaborating with journalists, designers and developers, and managing deliverables from many stakeholders.
Ability and enthusiasm for self-started, independent work and project management: moving an idea from ideation to publishing and iteration.
Demonstrable experience of using analytics tools to develop ideas and grow audiences and acting on lessons from user data to improve subsequent work.
Will know how to design formats and templates to reach and engage specific audiences such as young people, in addition to editorial angles such as headlines and subject matter.
Adaptable and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines at once.
You will have knowledge of current affairs across the range of areas that BBC News covers.
Knowledge of formats produced by competitors in news, as well as the state of the art in other related industries such as social media and video gaming.
Technically, will be able to quickly pick up new systems, and train journalists in the use of formats we develop. Experience of image editing software like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and some proficiency with HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
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.