Journalist, Saturday Breakfast, BBC Southampton

BBC; Southampton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000

Job description

Package Description

Job Reference: 21181

Band: C

Salary: £27,300 - £32,533 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role – part time (0.2 EFT)

Location: Office Base is Southampton

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, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

BBC Radio Solent is looking for a Journalist – an audio content producer – to join its talented team of broadcast journalists at our studios in Southampton. This role will be studio producing our Saturday Breakfast programme, which is shared with BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Oxford, serving a TSA of more than three million people across five counties.

We’re looking for an experienced radio producer with excellent audio and storytelling skills to help us reflect the lives of the counties’ residents in our content. You’ll have experience setting up and producing great radio, originating stories and creating audio content for digital platforms.

Main Responsibilities

Creativity and storytelling are essential core skills. In this role you will engage the audience across the region with compelling stories, high production values and creative flare.

You will be skilled in originating content and ideas that engage the communities across all the five counties we cover, and will be able to share relevant stories on digital platforms as well as on the radio. Through your work you’ll make the output relevant to our diverse audience and look for opportunities to increase and maximise the reach of our content.

You will consistently achieve high journalistic standards and uphold the BBC Editorial Guidelines.

Are you the right candidate?

• You’ll be a team player and you’ll be brimming with ideas on news stories to share with the residents of the South.
• You’ll have the ability to recognise how we can share those stories in a variety of ways, not just on the radio, but on digital platforms as well.
• You’ll understand how to tell a story in a way in which our listeners can understand and engage with it.
• You’ll know the BBC’s strategic aims and know how the content you produce helps BBC Local achieve its target reach.
• You’ll know how to add value to an item using social media.
• You will be keen to bring in new contributors, voices and guests and really care about making your content reach a wide and diverse audience.
• You will work alongside the wider BBC South news operation where we are establishing new workflows, so adaptability and teamwork will be essential, as are excellent communication skills.

This role is one day a week, on a Saturday. The contractual base will be BBC Radio Solent (Southampton).

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.

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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.

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