JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C Journalist
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Radio Manchester Sport
LOCATION: Media City Salford
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,300-£35,150 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join BBC Radio Manchester, covering one of the UK's most exciting sport patches. From Premier League football to Super League rugby and major events like the Manchester Marathon, you'll help create standout sport content across radio and digital platforms. Based at Media City, alongside BBC Sport and Radio 5 Live, this role offers the chance to work in a vibrant newsroom, producing engaging, high-impact coverage that reflects Greater Manchester's rich sporting landscape.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
If you thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, this is the role for you. You'll be a driven, versatile journalist producing top-tier sport bulletins, live commentary, and digital content. Our team has covered everything from European football finals to Super League and Premier League Darts. It's a collaborative, ambitious team where your work will reach passionate audiences and where you'll have the chance to grow and make a real impact.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
Producing sport output on BBC Radio Manchester that makes a big impact.
Our breakfast Sport bulletins are designed to showcase our Sport output and make a huge impact in the Joe McGrath Breakfast Show.
As a commentator at BBC Radio Manchester you'll travel up and down the country to bring our listeners the very best live commentary or match reports. We regularly deliver football (including women's game) rugby league and rugby union, but also are looking for opportunities to cover more sports that our audience is passionate about.
Essential Criteria
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
* Experience in sport broadcasting at a comparable level to BBC Radio Manchester who can act as a producer, presenter, commentator, reporter and bulletin reader.
* A great broadcast voice
* Resilience and an ability to work independently and as part of the team
* Creativity to bring and champion the best and biggest ideas for content
* An attention to detail and an ability to successfully manage multiple priorities
Desired But Not Required
* Experience commentating on Premier League Football
* Radio Production experience
* If you've previously won any industry awards for your work
* If you've created your own successful blog, podcast, fan media content or social channels
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.
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.
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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.