PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Salary up to £37,050 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Job Application Requirements :
* CV
Please note that a Cover Letter is not necessary, details should be put in your application questionnaire.
Purpose of the Role
BBC Politics Online is looking for a journalist who will write for our digital output. The role requires someone who can write stories, including breaking news, in one of the busiest teams in the BBC.
Why Join the Team
Be at the heart of political journalism with a role covering the biggest stories shaping the nation. You’ll work with a dedicated team, writing news stories, explainers and features for a huge audience which have a wide impact. Based in Westminster, you’ll have insight, great political knowledge, and thrive under pressure.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
* Apply knowledge of British politics and governmental institutions to inform accurate and insightful journalism.
* Research and write high-quality political content for digital platforms, drawing on substantial experience in journalism.
* Monitor and respond rapidly to breaking political news, ensuring timely and relevant coverage in a fast‑paced newsroom environment.
* Collaborate within a high‑profile editorial team, demonstrating resilience under pressure.
* Generate original story ideas and identify emerging political trends to engage and grow the audience.
* Maintain editorial standards and contribute to shaping the political news agenda through informed reporting.
* Identify and write stories that reflect every facet of audience interest and the evolving political landscape.
Your Skills and Experience
* Experienced writer, working to tight deadlines and across fast moving and breaking news stories.
* Excellent knowledge and understanding of all aspects of UK politics, at Westminster, and across the UK.
* Ability to come up with ideas and spot trends in politics likely to engage the audience, and attract new and underserved readers.
* A strong background and demonstrable evidence of writing breaking and continuing stories. You should provide evidence of both developing new lines on moving political stories, and explaining complex situations clearly.
* A track record as a writer who can examine complex political stories impartially and fairly.
* Evidence of an understanding of how to spot a good political story, ability to tell those stories in an engaging way, and how to recognise reaching the widest range of audiences around the UK.
* An understanding of the main production methods and technology of BBC News across digital, as well as familiarity with new initiatives in digital and social media in the BBC and wider media.
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.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and, if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
Benefits
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
* Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35‑hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensions scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
* Excellent career and professional development.
* Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
* A values‑based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You Belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability Confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
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