Producer Director - Wales Investigates

ENGINEERINGUK; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

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Sector: Media and Publishing

Role: Director

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Job Package

Band: D
Salary: £46,500 - £54,567 per annum dependent on relevant skills and experience
Location: Cardiff
Contract: Fixed Term Contract / Attachment for 6 months (with the possibility to be extended)

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.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Producer/Director to join Wales Investigates. The successful candidate will have strong journalistic skills and a real interest in investigations; digging beneath the surface and creative storytelling.

You'll also have a proven track record in producing content.

Working on challenging and agenda-setting stories, you'll generate & investigate strong story ideas, interview, direct, research, and write scripts for 30/60 minute films.

You'll have strong journalistic skills and a proven track in programme production.

You'll also have the ability to help lead and develop a team of production staff.

You'll be working with people from all walks of life, encouraging them to recount their experiences in accurate and accessible ways.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

You will work with the Executive Producer, Senior News Editor and other members of the team to help investigate and produce creative, imaginative and exciting content. You will be working on challenging and agenda-setting stories, you'll generate, investigate and produce strong story ideas. You will have some experience in producing investigative films and will be expected to film, research, interview, direct and write scripts as well as producing engaging digital content for all our platforms. You'll also have the ability to help lead and develop a team of production staff. Because of the nature of the job, you must be highly flexible and ready to work with extremely sensitive material, both legally and editorially.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

You will have:

1. The ability to work in a demanding and stimulating environment.
2. A high level of motivation, flexibility and enthusiasm is required, as is initiative, creativity and flair.
3. Experience of working on all types of news and current affairs.
4. Genuine interest in Welsh issues.
5. Willingness to embrace new ways of working, particularly digital.
6. A passion for longer-form story-telling.
7. The ability to make high-impact programmes which are capable of leading the news agenda both in Wales and at network-level.

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.