Journalist, BBC Merseyside

ENGINEERINGUK; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job description

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Sector: Media and Publishing
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Description

Contract: 1 x Permanent contract; Full-Time
Location: Liverpool - Radio Merseyside
Band: C

Job Reference: 22112

Salary: £27,300 - £32,500 pro rata depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

We're happy to discuss flexible working.

1. Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3. Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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.

Job Introduction

BBC Merseyside covers one of the busiest news patches in the country, regularly reporting on stories which lead the national news agenda. The team covers Liverpool and the surrounding city region of towns and villages along with parts of Cheshire and Lancashire.

We're currently looking for a multi-skilled journalist to work as part of the Merseyside Local Story Team. This is a chance to be part of our friendly and talented team with a real can-do spirit. The role will be based in the Liverpool newsroom and will predominantly consist of reporting on news stories on location or from the studio, writing, compiling and reading radio news bulletins, writing stories for our online index and sometimes newsgathering for TV.

You'll need to be hands on and have a passion for story-telling, with experience in breaking news, have a great news reading voice, production and digital journalism skills. You'll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multi-platform story under a tight deadline.

Main Responsibilities

As a Journalist, you will:

• Regularly come up with high-impact ideas for local news stories that serve our audience and could travel further to regional or national audience.
• Use a range of video, audio and digital equipment along with IT systems to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver news stories to the highest professional standards for all platforms.
• Be required to present news stories on radio, TV or online. This could be live or recorded.
• Exercise editorial judgment in developing stories and producing accurate, legally sound and impartial journalism.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and with other departments within the BBC, to ensure that output material is shared, duplication is avoided, and best practice is upheld.
• Tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
• Deliver to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.
• Carry out duties at all times, in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy.

As part of your application, you are required to supply one example of your news reading skills. This bulletin example must be attached to your application. You can either paste the link in your application (links may appear as text) or you can send it to [e-mail] and [e-mail] if it is in MP3 format or similar.

Please ensure that there is a long expiry (some services have links that expire within days, and we might not be able to access the audio if it's deleted quickly.)

Are you the right candidate?

You will need:

• Significant recent experience as a journalist reporter and newsreader, with a good knowledge of production techniques.
• Experience of working in a multimedia environment delivering for multiple platforms, both broadcast and online.
• Sound legal knowledge and an understanding of law as applied to broadcast journalism.
• Strong editorial skills - including good nose for news and analytical, creative, strong interviewing skills.
• Experience of digital audio editing systems.
• The ability to use technology as required, in order to gather material for broadcast.
• To understand how a team works effectively and demonstrate collaborative teamworking.
• To build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
• To demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the corporation.
• Effective planning and organisational skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
• The ability to create video and social media content is also desired.

About the BBC

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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.

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