Tv Journalism Jobs in United Kingdom

Job Package

Job Reference :  20374

Band : D

Salary :  £39,800 - £55,000 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 .

Job Purpose

BBC North West is looking for an experienced and motivated TV and multiplatform journalist to join the team based in Salford.

As a senior journalist-reporter, you’ll be part of an ambitious multiplatform team, making local news content to run on our local online indexes, regional TV, local radio stations and social media.

We pride ourselves on finding and producing brilliant stories with strong local journalism, that’s relevant to the lives of ordinary working people throughout the area. You will help to set the tone for that journalism, coming up with and delivering content for all our platforms.

You’ll work in what we think is one of the most diverse and exciting areas of the country, from the cities of Manchester and Liverpool to the towns and beautiful countryside of Lancashire, Cheshire and South Cumbria.

Our culture is really important too and you’ll fit in working in a highly collaborative and supportive team.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• You will be creating and delivering content for use on TV, radio, the news website and social platforms and should understand the different formats and treatments that work for different outlets.
• You will be expected to bring in and deliver original stories and features.
• You’ll react to breaking news, reporting for TV, radio and online.
• You will be expected to fully understand the multi-platform environment we now operate in and be committed to delivering content for them.
• Your daily work will include, newsgathering, reporting, editing, writing for online and planning.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours .

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.