Overview
Senior Journalist - Polish at BBC World Service. Role is to adapt and produce text and video curated from World Service Languages and wider BBC News content for the BBC News Polska offer, in Polish with English proficiency required.
Job details
* Job band: D
* Contract type: 6 Month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
* Department: BBC World Service
* Location: London
* Proposed salary range: £41,200 - £42,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience + London Weighting
* Flexible working: discussions to occur at offer stage
Responsibilities
* Adapt BBC News text and video content into Polish, using translation and editing, for publication on BBC News Polish social media platforms, producing compelling SEO headlines and intros, curated for those platforms.
* Shorten BBC News content where necessary, sensitively, with understanding of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and Polish audience needs.
* Use specific additional reporting to make BBC News content more engaging for the Polish audience.
* Translate or, where necessary, produce concise and compelling short video content - voiced or subtitled.
* Offer ideas that may be developed into original journalism, to be done by BBC News teams on the ground. Work closely with the rest of Europe team to offer expertise on Polish issues, including but not limited to politics, history, international relations, society and culture. Closely follow diary events in Poland and wider region, to identify opportunities for curating and publishing content sourced from BBC News.
* Communicate with wider WSL and BBC News teams to stay across content in production and commissioning.
* Sub-edit content produced by Journalists or other Senior Journalists. Sign off content for publication on BBC News Polska website and social media channels.
Essential Criteria
* First language or equivalent proficiency in written and spoken Polish. High proficiency in English.
* Proven experience of writing compelling text articles and/or video scripts in Polish – you will need to provide examples of your work.
* Ability to produce SEO headlines, for Polish and wider European regional audiences.
* Video production skills: scripting and editing an advantage. Proven experience of producing impactful short videos is desirable.
* Understanding of the Polish and wider European media market and current challenges to factual journalism in the country and the region.
Additional notes
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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.
Redeployment: 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.
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