Job Purpose
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.
BBC Radio Tees is proud to serve an incredible area, and we reflect that pride through creatively serving our audience and making a difference to where we live.
We're committed to telling amazing stories from our communities, and bringing in new audiences through creating content which generates impact on air and on demand.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
This is a chance to be part of our friendly and talented team with a real can-do spirit. We are looking for a journalist to join our audio team.
Whilst this is a journalist role which could entail a range of duties, initially you will be focussing particularly on programme production - shaping the output of one of our daytime shows, driving the content, working with presenters and always putting the audience at the heart of everything you do.
You won't be scared to rip up a running order if things change and you'll be dedicated to producing engaging, creative and entertaining content. You'll have bags of ideas and the ability to develop creative treatments for both audio and social media.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
We're looking for a talented, creative and experienced producer. You will be organised, meticulous and have sound editorial judgement, as well as being a great team player.
You must have the ability to work under pressure; in a team and on your own and be prepared to work across the rota as needed. You'll know the BBC Radio Tees patch and understand the changing demands of our audiences, as well as understanding our diverse and underserved audiences.
You should have a strong idea of what makes great content on social media and be enthusiastic about continuing to learn new skills.
Job Impact
Decision making: High level of responsibility and decision making; able to operate alone. No managerial responsibility. May be informally supported by junior staff ie researchers, coordinators and assistants. Scope covers a wide range of journalism activity, producing news content and supporting the production and presentation of programming.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.