Job Description
Package Description
Job Reference: 12860
Band: D
Salary: £37,845 - £59,050. The salary offer will be dependant on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford or London
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. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
- 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 competitive 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, gym and much more.
Job Purpose
In the BBC Local investigations team, you will originate and work on investigations and high impact stories across TV, online and radio.
You will collaborate on commissions with colleagues across BBC Local and the wider BBC as appropriate; responsible for producing and directing half hour investigative TV for BBC 1 and I-player.
Can you find and tell stories creatively that connect with audiences to get results? Have you got strong journalism skills, bags of determination and an eye for high production?
If the answer is yes then working on the team could be the next role for you, bringing investigations and high impact stories to large regional audiences across TV, online and radio.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
In this role, you will be a creative storyteller able to hold the audiences' attention using fresh production techniques. You will be required to foster and develop a collaborative culture across all newsrooms and display excellent team working qualities. You will be supporting and developing cross-platform content that drives the news agenda with relevance, innovation and creativity that reflects the best of BBC journalism.
You will show a commitment to seeking out stories that connect and reflect diverse audiences that are currently underserved. In this rapidly changing media world, you'll be comfortable with multi-platform working, shooting and editing and eager to learn new skills if required like writing for online or delivering radio content.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
We are seeking an ambitious senior journalist with experience of working on complex investigations and ensuring output meets editorial and legal guidelines with a track record producing long form TV content.
With achievement in original, long form and investigative current affairs journalism, you will have the know-how to come up with compelling investigative ideas that drive the news agenda with relevance, innovation and creativity and the experience to develop them using your storytelling skills.
We're looking for someone who can confidently shoot/edit with a strong creative vision, excellent shooting skills and the ability to write engaging scripts and the directing skills to bring stories to life whilst following the appropriate guidelines and policies to manage editorial and legal risks. You will have knowledge of the latest production techniques and new technology with experience of secret filming, data journalism and open source journalism and managing associated risks.
The job requires strong writing skills to produce persuasive treatments, and the confidence in your ability to pitch ideas. You'll be a resilient person with a demonstrable ability to speak to truth to power and influence positive outcomes, able to source contributors and negotiate access to institutions whilst positively presenting yourself as a representative of BBC Local.
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 in the document attached below.
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.
