BBC Extend
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people.
To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our BBC Extend programme for disabled people, please contact [email protected].
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.
Purpose of the role
Contract type: 12 month fixed-term contract, Full-time.
Department: BBC News
Location: London
Proposed salary range: £28,000 - £35,000 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Interviews to take place WC 11th August.
The Journalist role for BBC News Streaming involves running single-story live streams across a range of daily news stories, frequently as sole producer.
The ability to rapidly familiarise yourself with a daily news story -planned or breaking-is essential as are the skills and capacity to deliver any or all the stream's production - editorial and operational.
All our roles - including Journalists - successfully pitch and execute ideas for streams that will broaden audience reach.
Why join the team
Join BBC News Streaming and help shape the future of digital journalism through our pioneering single story live streams.
As a Journalist, you’ll typically own the production of one or more live streams in our Streaming Control Centre. You’ll be a natural collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced daily news environment where taking ownership for your decisions and development is the norm.
You will be as comfortable covering breaking news as you are planned live events and identifying off-diary stories that will engage audiences we need to reach. If you are agile, creative and are passionate about redefining live video news, this is the role for you.
Your key responsibilities and impact
- As a Journalist on the team you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC and within the Streaming Team to showcase BBC News at its best.
- Since launch, BBC News’ streams have reached millions of users in the UK and around the world. Across iPlayer, the BBC News website and app and on live pages, we bring audiences live coverage of the biggest stories - delivering the best of the BBC’s journalism 24/7. Following significant investment in digital teams across BBC News, the team is now expanding and broadening to deliver non-stop coverage around the clock, from across the globe. From later this year, the team will also regularly deliver output from Streaming to viewers on UK television.
- You’ll assist in the production of a wide variety of live news coverage. The successful candidates will be at home with breaking news, or pre-planned major events. With a keen eye for moments, you’ll help spot and amplify the best of the BBC to audiences wherever they are with us, digitally.
- Streaming is a major priority for BBC News across our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry; you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.
- Journalists in the team will be expected to work across a variety of daytime, evening and weekend shifts to deliver always on News coverage across BBC platforms.
Your skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working on live programming on a wide variety of subjects, from breaking news to planned coverage of events.
- Understanding and experience of newsroom tooling, systems and techniques to produce live news output.
- Knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content across BBC platforms.
- An appreciation of how audiences consume video and audio on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content across BBC platforms.
- Willingness to work inside a multi-disciplinary team, in an agile, constantly developing and adapting environment.
- Capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Find out more about the BBC.
Life at the BBC
Here you will benefit from:
- Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
- Excellent career and professional development.
- Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
- A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging at the BBC.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [email protected]
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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.
For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
