Senior Journalist

Job Introduction
Radio Scotland’s three news programmes - Good Morning Scotland, Lunchtime Live and Drivetime - lead the news agenda across the country on a daily basis. We consistently break the day’s news, hold top politicians to account and highlight human interest stories that reflect Scotland’s people.

We are looking for Senior Journalists to join the team, taking responsibility for putting together and outputting these programmes. This is an excellent opportunity for those who are interested in politics, cultural life, domestic and foreign news to shape the news agenda.

The job is primarily focused on Good Morning Scotland, which includes overnight shifts. This is a fantastic chance to lead the flagship programme of the station, outputting in the studio and taking on the key responsibility for kicking off the news agenda for the day across BBC Scotland.

Main Responsibilities
- Decide on the stories for the programmes and lead others on the production of items through to going live on air. This includes assigning, briefing and determining priorities.
- Strong editorial judgment, ability to make sound decisions quickly and under pressure.
- Responsible for building morale/team spirit within teams; ensuring the best use of individual skills/abilities. Encouraging team members to think about how to do things better.
- Seek ways to increase diversity in our workforce and to ensure that our output reflects the audiences we serve.
- Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest standards of journalism.
- A genuine enthusiasm for stories which will be of interest to a diverse audience and the ability to think of creative ways of illustrating these stories.
- A good knowledge of Scottish and British politics, cultural life, and domestic and foreign affairs
- Considerable knowledge and practical experience of daily journalism.
- Clear understanding of our programmes and their public profile.
- Interpersonal skills to deal honestly and productively with staff including presenters.
- Sound political judgement.
- Be able to originate programme stories, news-making ideas and work to tight deadlines.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: Permanent - Full time
Location: Glasgow

**Application process**: You will be asked to fill in a diversity questionnaire which is confidential and not seen by the hiring manager. You will then be asked to:

- upload your CV
- complete an eligibility questionnaire
- answer questions specific to the role
- **_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 (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.