PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 - £33,600 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.
BBC EXTEND
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long‑term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non‑apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact extend@bbc.co.uk.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage (EXTEND code: EX2324).
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
London is a patch like no other serving the largest and most diverse city in Europe on some of the biggest stories. BBC London prides itself on producing original journalism that reflects the many communities we serve. Our 6.30 evening programme, on BBC One, is regularly the most watched TV news programme in the capital. Our online stories are among the most read and our social media posts reach millions of people each week.
We work collaboratively across TV, Radio and Online and are committed to delivering impactful content that travels even further on all platforms. We are looking for a talented journalist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a busy newsroom and in multi‑platform environments.
We are looking for journalists that can bring fresh ideas and creative treatments, as well as the necessary skills to deliver them working across multiple platforms. This is primarily a production role; working alongside our talented team of reporters and correspondents.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC London strives to create an inclusive working culture and aims to give our team opportunities to develop in their careers with the multimedia storytelling skills they need to flourish across all platforms. We warmly welcome applications from all suitable candidates, and we’re especially keen to hear from candidates from the diverse communities we serve and represent.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
This role involves working the full range of TV Journalist shifts at BBC London, across the day on our BBC One programming. You’ll be part of our friendly and supportive team, pitching and developing original ideas and working with reporters and correspondents to get those stories across the line. You’ll be setting up filming and guests plus briefing your colleagues across the newsroom teams. You’ll commission graphics from our designer and create your own using templates and production tools and you’ll work with different teams to deliver these stories across all our platforms. We really encourage multimedia working, so you may find yourself working on our website and social media channels.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
You’ll have experience working in TV news, including outputting programmes in a live news gallery as well as delivering content across other platforms. What’s most important is that you’re full of great ideas, you love working in teams, you understand the importance of accuracy, and you enjoy being busy. You should also be really interested in working in a digital way so you can be part of how we get our stories to as many audiences as possible. You’ll also be no stranger to tackling a big story, working through logistical and editorial challenges often at short notice.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
* Experience working across different news platforms (TV, radio, online or social media)
* Evidence of TV newsroom experience and live gallery programme outputting.
* Strong news sense and ability to find a story
* Strong production skills: basic video editing, production tools such as OpenMedia, Jupiter and Wolftech
* MOJO experience
* Good legal and editorial understanding
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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.
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.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
* Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35‑hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
* Excellent career and professional development.
* Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
* A values‑based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
Candidate pack
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy
Disability confident
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 and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
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