Journalist

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Journalism- Fixed Term - Part Time- London, GB, W1A 1AA- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 18/04/2024**THE ROLE**:
**Package description**:
**Contract**: 12 months attachment/ Fixed Term contract (Part Time - 17.5 hours per week)
**Location**: London
**Band**: C

**Salary**: Upto £35,000 (EFT) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

1.** Excellent career progression** - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2. **Unrivalled training and development opportunities **- our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3. **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 Local is the family of services we offer across local communities in England, including radio, online, social media and TV. With famous brands and new platforms, we provide a rich mix of content and programming from news to entertainment.

We are looking for a motivated, innovative online journalist to help shape our digital agenda.

We want a driven and passionate journalist who want to help reach new audiences with the news that matters to them. You’ll be a digital journalist who knows what online audiences expect and know how to turn around clean copy under tight deadlines. The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases - we want original ideas that help reflect the diverse audience that lives across the region.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Producing local news content for the BBC website and social media accounts for London
- Responsible for originating and producing stories for the BBC website which can also be used on other outlets, as well as turning around content from wires and press releases.
- Working with colleagues to ensure all our journalism works across digital, TV and audio platforms.
- Come up with investigation and feature ideas that help us represent the many different sides of life in the capital
- To tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
- Use social and video to help your journalism travel further either on your own or working with our social and video specialists.
- Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.
- You need to be adept at technology, picking up new skills and adapting to the changing demands of a digital working environment. The role requires occasional weekend working and early/late start times.
- Have sound editorial judgement, making decisions on matters of editorial sensitivity under pressure. You should be curious in your approach to delivering original journalism.
- Able to write clean, accurate and concise copy with quick turnaround times, for publication on the BBC website.
- Be familiar with social media in a news context and know how to make the most of various platforms to reach a range of audiences
- Understanding of SEO within a news context to help our stories reach the people most interested in and impacted by them.
- Comfortable with creating video content for social platforms, particularly aimed at younger and female audiences and working families
- A keen eye for strong imagery to make stories standout online and be able do basic photo editing.

**About the BBC**:
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.

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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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