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Join to apply for the Journalist - Today role at BBC
Package Description
Job Reference: 23512
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £35,150 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 5 months
Location: London
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
* 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
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Job Introduction
We’re looking for a creative, energetic, and resourceful journalist to join the team. Working on Today is both demanding and satisfying. You’ll be working with some of the biggest names in news broadcasting and your work will be heard by around 6 million people. You will be dealing with breaking news, finding the best new takes on stories, finding guests, briefing presenters for interviews, creating original packages, casting discussions, working on outside broadcasts and preparing online material for our digital platforms. This role could also involve joining the production team for the Today Podcast for a period of time.
You will be organised, resilient, hard-working and enthusiastic. A first class journalist with a strong knowledge of domestic and world politics and experience of working in a busy newsroom. A team player, you will be full of original ideas with the ability to communicate and contextualise complex stories and a thorough grasp of what makes good radio. You must have the flexibility to travel at short notice, and a good knowledge of the digital landscape and how to make our content travel further on BBC platforms.
Today is unique. Its reach, ambition, range, and its importance to BBC News and to the wider BBC are without parallel. Its audience is large, influential and curious about the world. The Today family now includes the Today podcast with Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan as a new venture designed to give our audiences more opportunity to hear the kind of journalism Today does in a different format.
Main Responsibilities
Journalists on the Today Programme work to ensure the on-going high standard and creativity of the programme’s output.
They Are Principally Responsible For
* Contributing original ideas and treatments for the day’s stories
* Finding and booking guests for live interviews and discussions
* Briefing presenters
* Commissioning two-ways and packages from newsgathering correspondents
* Making pieces of audio which meet the highest editorial and technical standards.
Journalists Will Also Need To
* Taking responsibility for programme items; ensuring the journalism is imaginative, creative and of the highest possible quality to fulfil the needs of listeners
* Programme objectives and strategies aimed at delivering the highest quality journalism
* Working to ensure that decisions made during production are properly reflected in output
* Collaboration with Newsgathering to ensure that correspondents and producers understand the programme's needs and are commissioned to meet its editorial requirements
* Having a well-developed understanding of the law and producer guidelines as it relates to journalism
* Understanding and implementing Health and Safety policies
* Understanding and implementing on-air diversity initiatives.
The Today Programme is staffed 24 hours a day, 6 days a week and the successful candidate will be required to work a significant number of night shifts and weekends. There is also requirement to work off base on occasion. There may also be times when the journalist does some work for other Radio 4 programmes.
Are you the right Candidate?
* Significant recent experience as a journalist – a self-starter with a strong track record of producing radio content for flagship programmes, fixing contributors and editing audio to the highest editorial standards.
* Strong knowledge of the domestic news agenda, with in-depth knowledge of politics.
* Ability to use radio recording technology (Marantz or equivalent) to gather and edit material for broadcast on location.
* Excellent news judgment; the ability to identify news lines or news making interviewees, and a strong understanding of what programmes want to get out of interviews.
* Creativity; proven ability to originate relevant content for a national audience in news or current affairs, and a solid track record of pitching ideas that get on air.
* Resilient, able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and experience of responding to breaking news stories.
* Understanding of how material can make an impact on digital platforms
If you have any questions regarding this role please contact Ollie Stone-Lee or Laura Cooper for more info. If you have any questions about the interview or application process please refer to Gateway where there is a wealth of resources and videos to help you.
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 here.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
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.
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