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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'll 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
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:
The role may include opportunities to work with the News on iPlayer VOD team on stranded or fast turnaround programmes. Therefore, the following skills are also desirable.
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.