Job Band: B, Contract Type: 2 x Fixed Term Contract, Full Time, ending 20 March 2026, Department: BBC Sport, Location: Salford.
The proposed salary range is £24,800 - £34,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. We're happy to discuss flexible working.
Purpose of the Role
We require Journalist Researchers to help deliver live sport coverage. You’ll need to have a passion for sport and be willing to work across all of our output.
Why Join the Team: Join BBC Sport where you’ll have the opportunity to work across our Events and Stories teams.
Key Responsibilities and Impact:
* Being part of a team of content makers who spot great stories and generate original journalism for a variety of platforms.
* Breaking quick, accurate, and engaging written news stories under pressure and to a high standard.
* Helping to make our coverage of events even more engaging through creative storytelling on a variety of platforms.
* Working on live sporting events – helping produce our industry leading live texts, reports, news and features.
* Suggesting creative content ideas to News Editors for on the day commissions reacting to the day’s news agenda or big social media talking points to inform and entertain our audience.
* Producing concise content or short reports from agency copy or other material from BBC departments and programmes.
* Being receptive to feedback and good at building positive working relationships with peers.
Skill and Experience: Essential Criteria:
* Proven ability to write quickly, accurately and succinctly as well as experience of how to find and generate stories for a digital audience in a broadcasting organisation.
* Proven interest in the current news and sport news agenda, proven editorial judgement and the ability to make quick decisions under pressure.
* Created or curated social media for a broadcasting organisation, with an understanding of what sports fans are talking about and what they want to read.
* Demonstrable ability to work well within a team as well as on own initiative with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
* A good understanding and evidence of how to optimise storytelling for different platforms, such as creating digital video for mobile devices.
The BBC is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all candidates. We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.
We are 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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