Package Description
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference: 24160
Band: C
Salary: Up to £33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent full-time role.
Location: Office Base is Lincolnshire.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
* Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
* Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
* Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk .
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 the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox .
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace 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 .
Job Introduction
We are currently looking for a talented and enthusiastic Audio Social Journalist to join our dynamic team based in Lincoln, bringing Lincolnshire’s stories alive across all of our platforms. If you possess a passion for crafting high-quality social media content, then we would love to hear from you.
Main Responsibilities
As a journalist, some of the main responsibilities will include:
* Day-to-day running of our social media accounts.
* Reversioning content to make the most of our audio and reach online audiences.
* Working alongside our Executive Producer, the wider BBC Lincolnshire team and the BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire social lead, you’ll aim to drive engagement and grow referrals from social accounts to BBC products and services, including BBC Sounds.
* Promoting radio station activities and using your creative film-making skills to turn the biggest local talking points into content for both social media and broadcast output.
* Being a champion of new social media formats like radio studio visualisation. You’ll need to be a team player – someone colleagues can rely on for digital support and training.
* Using social listening tools to identify the issues that matter most to local audiences – and having the creative vision to turn them into content audiences love to read, watch and share.
* Turning daily radio and TV content into engaging social formats and creating original digital content using your own ideas and experience.
* Contributing ideas and helping improve our digital and audio offering.
Are you the right candidate?
This is a great opportunity for someone who loves growing audiences, digital content, and audio – and believes in the power of social media to reach new listeners and viewers.
The Successful Candidate Will
* Have experience of creating high-impact content across multiple platforms.
* Be passionate about storytelling and understand how the BBC serves local digital audiences.
* Have an instinct for which stories resonate on social platforms.
* Ideally have experience managing accounts or building a social media brand and implementing strategy.
* Understand editorial challenges and legal considerations involved in digital journalism.
* Ideally possess filmmaking skills, with the ability to shoot and edit your own material (e.g. using Final Cut Pro).
* Have knowledge of social listening tools and interpreting audience data. Experience with publishing platforms like Social Flow is also desirable.
* You don’t need a formal journalism or news background – you just need a strong editorial instinct and the ability to spot a great story when you hear it.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr