JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £41,900 - £51,900 + London weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
JOB PURPOSE
The Senior Journalist role for BBC News Streaming involves shaping and directing editorial content for one or several concurrent single-story live streams, and/or supporting others in the Streaming Control Centre as they lead/curate these. Independently making fast, fine judgements about what to report and how is essential, as are the skills to get resources deployed. Equally important is a sophisticated interest in streaming technology and the aptitude to operate these systems without operational support.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join BBC News Streaming and shape the future of digital journalism through our pioneering single story live streams. As a Senior Journalist, you'll produce multiple live streams and help lead the team in our Streaming Control Centre, using audience data to drive compelling storytelling across the BBCs platforms. With extensive live and breaking news experience as an outputter, you'll thrive in fast‑paced, collaborative environments, making confident and well‑judged decisions. This is a great opportunity to embrace innovation, creativity and help evolve our test‑and‑learn culture at the forefront of digital news.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
* As a Senior Journalist on the team you'll work with colleagues across the BBC to deliver and to showcase BBC News across platforms including iPlayer, the BBC News Channel, the BBC News website, and social platforms such as YouTube.
* You will be responsible for producing and outputting a wide variety of live news coverage. The successful candidates will be at home with breaking news, or pre‑planned major events. With a keen eye for moments, you'll help amplify the best of the BBC to audiences wherever they are with us, digitally.
* Streaming is a major priority for BBC News across our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry; you'll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
This section outlines the skills and experience required for the role.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
* Excellent editorial judgement and knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content across BBC platforms.
* Significant experience producing and output‑editing live daily news programming on a wide variety of subjects, from breaking news to planned coverage of events.
* Understanding, experience and supporting the development of newsroom tooling, systems and techniques to produce live video news output for digital platforms.
* A thorough understanding of analytics; how audiences consume video and audio on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content across BBC platforms.
* Willingness to work inside a data‑led, multi‑disciplinary team, in an agile, constantly developing and adapting environment.
* Demonstrable experience of being a team player, actively motivating colleagues and working with a variety of teams, consistently upholding data‑driven decision‑making to deliver high quality output.
* Capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
* Experience as a producer making long‑form programmes and developing new on‑demand formats.
* Proven ability to edit video with demonstrable knowledge of techniques to create video output.
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. 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.
This is your BBC
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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
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