Job Description
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Package Description
Job Reference: 23857
Band: E
Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Continuing
Location: Leeds or Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will frequently attend the office alongside being on location and working from home
Job Introduction
This is your chance to be at the forefront of one of BBC News' most important and high-profile projects. Your Voice, Your BBC News puts the audience at the heart of our coverage by developing stories they have suggested. You will take the lead in a team generating, developing and reporting stories from responses we've received through the website, on email and on WhatsApp. The role would suit a creative correspondent with a passion for the public and their concerns, a strong news sense and outstanding storytelling skills. You will be able to transform the grit of an audience submission into the gleaming pearl of a story. We want someone who can get the stories the public suggests onto the news.
Main Responsibilities
Originate, develop and report off-diary multi-platform stories using user-generated content and audience suggestions as a starting point.
Identify and initiate new ways to generate stories involving the audience and spot opportunities to tie in stories with the diary and changing news agenda.
Take the leading role in and responsibility for deciding how a story should be developed, but collaborate enthusiastically and respectfully with other team members.
Leverage strong relationships with programme editors to maximise impact.
Regularly provide well-written and well-produced packages and deliver live content from the field and in the studio.
Prioritise and plan activities to manage time efficiently and independently to meet deadlines, without relying on regular direction.
Exercise impeccable editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
Present and explain complex information and ideas in an accessible manner, adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
Are you the Right Candidate?
Exceptional news sense, excellent knowledge of the audiences of different programmes and instinctive understanding of interests of the public, demonstrated by a strong journalistic record.
A self-starter able to identify, generate and develop the right stories with little input. We want a journalist, not a presenter.
A spell-binding storyteller who regularly will provide well-written and well-produced packages, reports and items for bulletins, programmes and services across all media, including digital.
Enthusiasm for the public, respect for their interests and demonstrable experience of originating stories from user-generated content.
Work positively, flexibly and respectfully in a team in a role subject to changing priorities and circumstances.
Able to build and maintain strong relationships with programmes and Story Teams in a role that may involve significant collaboration.
Faultless planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
Tenacious, productive, outcome-focused and willing to be judged on output with absolute commitment to making Your Voice, Your BBC News a success.
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