Senior Journalist

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom BBC Full time

Job Band

Band - D

Welsh language skills aren't necessary for the role / Nid yw sgiliau yn yr Iaith Gymraeg yn hanfodol ar gyfer y swydd

Salary - GBP37,845 - GBP44,913 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Job Purpose

BBC Wales Investigates is looking for a Senior Journalist to work on investigations and big stories for 12 months.

The successful candidate will have strong journalistic skills and a real interest in investigations; digging beneath the surface and creative storytelling.

You'll also have a proven track record in producing content.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

You will work with the Editor, and other members of the team, to help investigate and produce creative, imaginative and exciting content. You will be working on challenging and agenda-setting stories, you'll generate, investigate and produce strong story ideas. You will have some experience in producing investigative films and will be expected to film, research, interview, direct and write scripts as well as producing engaging digital content for all our platforms. You'll also have the ability to help lead and develop a team of production staff. Because of the nature of the job, you must be highly flexible and ready to work with extremely sensitive material, both legally and editorially.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

You will have :

The ability to work in a demanding and stimulating environment

A high level of motivation, flexibility and enthusiasm is required, as is initiative, creativity and flair

Experience of working on all types of news and current affairs

Genuine interest in Welsh issues

Willingness to embrace new ways of working

Along with your application, please submit one story idea, no more than one side of A4 for each to and by midday on the 15th April 2024

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 in the document attached below.

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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