Journalist (Shared Data Unit), Bbc Birmingham

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Journalism- Fixed Term - Full Time- Birmingham, GB, B1 1AY- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 30/06/24**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
Job Reference: 17020
Band: C

**Salary**: £26,975 - £42,080 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 4mths FTC / Attachment
Location: Birmingham
- 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, gym and much more.

**Job Introduction**:
As part of the BBC’s Local News Partnerships, the Shared Data Unit is recruiting for a four-month attachment for a data journalist (computer-assisted reporter).This role sits within an award-winning team of data specialists who deliver investigative content to the BBC and the wider local news industry. The role involves finding exclusive public interest data journalism stories, which can serve a national audience and scale down regionally to meet the needs of local partners.
It also involves helping deliver the Shared Data Unit’s training programme for local news journalists.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- To generate original ideas for impactful data-driven investigations that will resonate with regional audiences and the wider BBC
- To explore and summarize data for interesting news angles using spreadsheet software such as Google Sheets and/or Excel
- To use off-the-shelf data visualisation tools such as Flourish and Datawrapper to explain complex datasets to our audience.
- To help deliver the Shared Data Unit’s training workshops for regional journalists, and help organise its programme of events throughout the year such as workshops, hackdays and conferences
- To monitor data releases from public authorities and other sources for potential sources of news stories.
- You will be a talented investigative journalist, brimming with story ideas.
- You will be adept at handling datasets with a track record of delivering public interest news stories from a variety of data sources.
- You will enjoy working on long-form digital investigations rather than daily news.
- You will be passionate about local news and have an understanding of the regional news sector. You will be passionate about exploring the latest developments in digital storytelling and computer-aided journalism.

**Nice to have skills**:
Basic knowledge of programming languages used by data journalists such as Python and R

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**DISCLAIMER**:
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.


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