Senior Journalist, BBC Northern Ireland

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Sector: Media and Publishing

Role: Senior Executive

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 21306
Band: D
Salary: £39,800 - £47,126 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 1 x permanent full-time role as a Senior Journalist (producer) with the Digital News team, 1 x 6 month fixed-term, full-time role Senior Journalist (producer) with the News Content team and 1 x 6 month fixed-term, part-time Senior Journalist (producer) role with the Ireland bureau.
Location: Office Base is Belfast.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.

• 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 Introduction
BBC News Northern Ireland provides breaking news, analysis, features and debate plus coverage on topical issues across all platforms for local audiences and beyond. We are transforming its news operation to make it future fit in a rapidly changing and diversifying news media climate, with digital at its heart.
We're looking for Senior Journalists who can be part of this change and help drive content with a digital focus.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Senior Journalists need to be creative thinkers who can lead journalists in their area to deliver the best possible output for our audiences. Senior Journalists will be required to work on digital content, on the BBC News NI's website, on daily programmes, such as BBC Newsline or Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster, or in the News Content area.

• Lead daily production meetings in their output area and then assign tasks to Journalists, Reporters and Researchers.
• Commission output for their production area and deploy resources in a cost-effective way.
• Motivate teams to think creatively and respond quickly to breaking news.
• Contribute to the production of original journalism.
• Provide forward planning and production support.
• Deal with complex legal and editorial issues.
• Influence BBC News NI's news agenda, advise output editors and News Content colleagues on the importance of particular issues.
• Work mostly at base but on location as required.
• Support junior staff members to help them grow and develop in their role.
• Support the management team through a period of change in the newsroom.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
You will need;

• Extensive editorial experience, a strong news judgement as well as comprehensive experience of operating calmly under pressure.
• Experience in managing people, good interpersonal and communication skills and a keenness to collaborate.
• A strong grasp of editorial and legal issues and an ability to deal with complex editorial issues in a highly pressurised environment.
• To be resilient and highly-motivated self-starter.
• A track record in delivering original journalism.
• The ability to write clear and concise copy to run across all outlets.
• An understanding of how audiences operate in the digital space.
• Knowledge of our audience need and output demonstrating a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• A sound knowledge of politics, current affairs and ongoing issues in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and further afield.

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