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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Nations, BBC Local Data Unit (Central Team)
LOCATION: Birmingham - 3 days in office; some travel to other BBC sites may be required on occasion
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,000 - £34,000 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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join BBC Local’s Data Team (the England Data Unit) to deliver high-impact data-led stories. With experience in storytelling, you’ll have technical expertise in sourcing, harvesting and cleaning data at scale. You’ll support the delivery of journalism across England, working in partnership with regional and Verify teams across the BBC. You’ll also be excited about the possibilities that AI may offer, and eager to embrace new ways of working.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You’ll be part of the Central Team, which provides a range of multi-platform central services for local and regional teams across England. In the last two years, the England Data Unit has delivered key insights for local journalism, worked with and supported our Regional Investigations teams and worked collaboratively with BBC News and network TV and radio colleagues. The team is focused on high-impact storytelling, using data to help provide insight into the world around us about things that matter to our audiences.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* Confident in fielding statistical queries at pace, and handling, cleaning and building datasets
* The ability to work on multiple stories at once, and handling shifting priorities across BBC Local’s digital and linear services.
* Proven delivery of stories to multiple platforms, with an awareness of the different audience needs of individual platforms
* To generate original ideas for impactful data-driven investigations that will resonate with regional audiences and the wider BBC.
* Use off-the-shelf data visualisation tools such as Flourish and Datawrapper to explain complex datasets.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* A good understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.
* A strong grasp of how to clean and query data using spreadsheet software such as Excel and Google Sheets, and experience of using visualisation tools such as Datawrapper and Flourish (including spatial data).
* Experience negotiating with public officials for data and open records, and sound understanding of how to gather information via Freedom of Information requests.
* Experience of writing for the web and using content management systems to make compelling content.
* You will be passionate about local news and have an understanding of BBC Local, and the BBC teams across England. You will have experience in creating graphics, telling visual stories online and/or for TV, and be confident in telling stories across all of our platforms.
Desired But Not Required
* Knowledge of programming languages used by data journalists such as Python and R.
* A knowledge of basic HTML and CSS and an understanding of web page design.
* Knowledge of web scraping tools.
* Knowledge and experience of bespoke data visualization, and Photoshop.
* Experience in content production and broadcasting: audio reporting, video/TV reporting, production, and online journalism.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
For more information please contact ED Barlow : Ed.Barlow@bbc.co.uk, Lead for Data, Formats and Innovation, BBC Local and Jonathan Fagg :jonathan.fagg@bbc.co.uk, Senior Data Journalist
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.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
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.
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