Journalist – BBC Essex Sport – BBC (Chelmsford)
Package Description
Job ID: 018183
Salary: £27,300 – £32,533 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Band: C
Contract Type: 9 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment
Location: Chelmsford
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 Introduction
BBC Essex is an exciting multimedia newsroom serving an audience who are distinctly different, but with a definitive Essex identity.
We’re looking for an experienced, versatile sports Journalist to join the team at BBC Essex. You’ll need to be hands on and able to work right across the audio output and other platforms, on a range of shifts from production to commentary.
A sports specialism is key as is presentation and commentary experience. You’ll need to be confident providing both cricket and football commentary primarily for Southend United, Colchester United, Braintree Town and Essex County Cricket. You’ll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience.
We want a driven and passionate person who is keen to reach new audiences through our programmes and online. You’ll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multi-platform story under a tight deadline.
The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases – we want original and inclusive ideas that help reflect the diverse audience in Essex.
Main Responsibilities
You’ll be reporting live into programmes, producing, presenting and providing commentary for programmes or gathering material for use on audio platforms, and for online and TV. You’ll be able to use a range of audio and digital equipment to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium. You may be required to produce and edit podcasts. You’ll have sound editorial judgement and be able to seek out the best contributors from a wide range of backgrounds. Clear, confident communication is important and you’ll have the ability to develop story ideas and produce accurate and impartial journalism, and have excellent writing skills for producing content on multiple platforms.
Are you the right candidate?
Inclusivity, respect, team work and creativity are important to us. You’ll need to demonstrate these values as well as have passion to serve local audiences, and our plans to grow our impact with all audiences across BBC Local.
You’ll be able to embrace new technology and be good at building relationships with a diverse range of people and understand how to build lasting contacts in our communities.
You will have the ability to work flexibly and efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines.
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 here.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
