JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: 2 x Fixed Term Contract, Full Time, ending 20 March 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC Sport
LOCATION: Salford – there is an expectation that the successful candidate will be in the office 2- 3 days per week. Early morning, evening and weekend work are also features of this role. 4 x 10 hour shifts per week.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,800 - £34,800 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
Do you want to help BBC Sport deliver the biggest sporting events and sports news stories to digital audiences?
We require Journalist Researchers to help us deliver live sport coverage. These roles will be based in Salford, at our production centre.
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. Our teams help make sure that every day our audiences are served with all the best content. It's an exciting place to be
Your 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
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Please evidence the following in your application.
* 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. We would be interested to hear of any specialist sporting knowledge and interest.
* 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.
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.