Journalist, Saturday Breakfast, BBC Southampton
Job Reference: 21181
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 -£32,533 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role – part time (0.2 EFT)
Location: Office Base is Southampton
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
Job Introduction
BBC Radio Solent is looking for a Journalist – an audio content producer – to join its talented team of broadcast journalists at our studios in Southampton. This role will be studio producing our Saturday Breakfast programme, which serves a TSA of more than three million people across five counties.
We’re looking for an experienced radio producer with excellent audio and storytelling skills to help us reflect the lives of the counties’ residents in our content. You’ll have experience setting up and producing great radio, originating stories and creating audio content for digital platforms.
Main Responsibilities
Creativity and storytelling are essential core skills. In this role you will engage the audience across the region with compelling stories, high production values and creative flair. You will be skilled in originating content and ideas that engage the communities across all the five counties we cover, and will be able to share relevant stories on digital platforms as well as on the radio.
You will consistently achieve high journalistic standards and uphold the BBC Editorial Guidelines.
Are you the right candidate?
* You’ll be a team player with ideas on news stories to share with the residents of the South.
* You’ll recognize how to share those stories in various ways, not just on the radio.
* You’ll understand how to tell a story in a way our listeners can engage with.
* You’ll know the BBC’s strategic aims and how your content helps achieve its target reach.
* You’ll know how to add value to an item using social media.
* You will be keen to bring in new contributors and care about making your content reach a wide and diverse audience.
* You will work alongside the wider BBC South news operation where adaptability and teamwork will be essential.
This role is one day a week, on a Saturday. The contractual base will be BBC Radio Solent (Southampton).
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.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
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.
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.
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