Senior Journalist

Job Introduction

BBC News NI are recruiting 2 senior journalists to the Digital News team. We are looking for experienced journalists to join the core team who are responsible for ensuring our news articles, features, digital video and social media output reflects the BBC's reputation for world-class journalism. They will, as part of the Digital News team, help develop new ways of bringing the news to audiences that may not always connect with the BBC.

Main Responsibilities
- Assessing, sub-editing and publishing daily content from our journalists
- Assigning tasks to journalists, commissioning news articles and features and managing the Northern Ireland news index.
- Contributing on a daily basis to the production of original journalism by the BBC News NI team
- Motivating teams to react quickly to breaking news stories with fast, accurate and editorially and legally sound copy
- Providing mentoring and formal and informal feedback to team members
- Daily production and editing of video, audio, stills and graphics to enhance our offering for all our digital platforms
- Dealing with complex editorial and legal issues
- Developing and complying engaging social media content while demonstrating a thorough understanding of the editorial benefits and dangers of social media
- Prioritising and planning activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
- Complying hourly radio bulletins
- Liaising daily with teams in Radio and Television in order to promote an integrated approach across all platforms.
- Work flexibly across output as required

To be successful in this role you must have a track record of original journalism with substantial experience in writing concise and accurate news stories for daily news websites/outlets.

You must have excellent copy editing skills and experience of daily production of video, audio, stills and graphics for digital platforms.

A sound knowledge of politics, current affairs and ongoing issues in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and further afield is essential as is a thorough grounding in media law and a clear understanding of the BBC's Editorial Guidelines.

You should also have daily experience of creating and moderating social media content

About the BBC

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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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Package Description
**Band**: D

**Contract type**: 1 x 35hr Permanent contract and 1x 17.5hr permanent contract

**Location**: Belfast

**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

The BBC D&I Plan - Diversity & Inclusion Plan - Workforce Diversity & Inclusion (bbc.co.uk)