Journalist - Weekend Bulletins

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent Part-Time (14 hours per week)
Location: Shrewsbury

Salary: 27, ,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Job Introduction

BBC Shropshire is looking for a journalist with sharp writing skills and a great broadcasting voice to present weekend news bulletins. The role involves preparing and reading radio and smart speaker bulletins at breakfast time and through the morning on Saturdays and Sundays. You'll also prep bulletin copy and breaking news stories for the Monday breakfast show. You'll be an organised, technically competent and self-reliant broadcast professional who is comfortable with lone working, as well as working well in a team. You'll be skilled at delivering complex news stories in a clear and conversational way. There may also be an opportunity for extra hours to cover our newsreaders who work on weekdays

Main Responsibilities

As a Journalist - weekend bulletin reader, you will:

• Use a range of audio, video and digital equipment to write, assemble, edit and deliver output to the highest professional standards
• Use excellent editorial judgement, and a sound knowledge of BBC values in order to develop stories and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• Liaise closely with team members in other areas of the BBC - particularly in online, regional TV and BBC Sounds - to ensure material is updated and shared.
• Deliver to tight deadlines with the highest editorial standards.

Are you the right candidate?

The right person will be able to demonstrate:

• Recent experience of live radio production and/or presenting news bulletins
• Sound editorial and presentation decisions based on a thorough understanding of BBC news and current affairs, the BBC's values, and our local BBC Shropshire audience.
• A thorough understanding of the law relating to journalism
• Ability to use technology as required.
• A passion for the BBC and local broadcasting, and the service we offer listeners.
• Reliability, and a track record of working well on your own and under pressure
• Teamwork - particularly working cooperatively in a large, and sometimes complex, organisation.

Further information please contact Rose Aston, Executive Producer on ; or Chris King, News Editor on

Please note that you will only be asked to submit a CV by way of application for this vacancy, and this CV will be the sole basis on which we initially review your application. We would therefore encourage you to approach your CV as an application, and to tailor it to highlight the skills and experience which we've talked about in this advert. We'd love to know not only about your most relevant experience and responsibilities in previous roles, but also any achievements, transferable skills, or areas of personal or professional interest that highlight why you'd be a great candidate for this role.

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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.

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