Producer (Journalist) - English Language Teaching

Package Description

Job Reference: 22856
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £32,300 + London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Permanent
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role.

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 and gym.

Job Introduction

BBC Learning English is the award-winning, English language teaching arm of BBC World Service.

The department primarily creates digital content for English language learners on its web, app and social media platforms and via podcasts. It also syndicates content to partner networks which includes social media, web and to a lesser extent radio and TV. We are now aiming to increase reach to our young, underserved audiences by broadening our English language teaching offer to our China partners and Mandarin speaking audiences in general.

Main Responsibilities

• This is an English language teaching role, not a news journalism role.
• To support the delivery of BBC Learning English's digital-first strategy to help audiences learn English.
• To work as part of a team of Mandarin-speaking, experienced English language teaching professionals to originate, create, present and publish English language teaching audio, video, text and image-based content for our Chinese English language learners.
• To collaborate with the other departmental teams to ensure all products achieve high levels of valued reach among audiences.
• To participate in and work across other areas of BBC Learning English's output as required.

Are you the right person?

• Native knowledge of Mandarin (simplified) in all forms.
• Excellent working knowledge of English in all forms with first-class translations skills from one language to the other.
• Recent experience in the creation of and delivery of English language teaching materials for a Mandarin audience learning within a school environment and also for Mandarin audiences who self-study via different media platforms.
• Enthusiasm and curiosity for and an in-depth understanding of digital production and content, particularly in relation to English language teaching.
• Experience of creating English language teaching content for various Chinese social media platforms.
• Strong technical knowledge - particularly the use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro for image, audio and video editing.

About the BBC

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