Journalist – BBC (Scotland)

Extend: EX2324

Job Reference: 17808

Band: C

Salary: £27,300 – £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Office Base is Glasgow

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

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 Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace 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.

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Are you an experienced journalist with skills in long form programme making? Do you love digging out stories that others would rather remain untold? Do you have a passion for journalism that makes a difference?

BBC Scotland’s Long Form Journalism team is recruiting for an enthusiastic and creative Assistant Producer to join the team in Glasgow.

Main Responsibilities

As part of the award-winning Long Form Journalism team, you will find, develop and pitch investigative story ideas for TV, radio, and online whilst demonstrating innovation, a desire and determination to tell untold stories and a passion for original journalism that appeals to our diverse audience across all our platforms.

You will identify and select stories predominantly for the Disclosure strand in a way which demonstrates strong journalistic skills and editorial judgement, as well as good legal knowledge and sensitivity to the dilemmas involved in and the people affected by these decisions.

You will drive films, both in terms of visual style and structure, encouraging innovation but always working within BBC editorial guidelines.

To help or in some instances lead on the creative and journalistic process as part of a team of producer/directors delivering compelling content from complex material, including shooting some elements of films and working across the wider News and short form output produced by the team.

Are you the right candidate?

You will be highly creative and imaginative, bursting with original ideas and a true desire to tell the untold stories that appeal to our diverse audiences.

People are at the heart of our stories; our ambition is to tell original, untold stories that make a difference to our audience.  We are looking for someone who shares that same ambition and has the drive and determination to succeed, with the ability to talk confidently to people and persuade them to share their stories

We’re looking for someone who has experience in self-shooting, audio and video editing, and who can work flexibly across the production, collaborating with colleagues from across the News department and beyond.

You should have an understanding of the goals and objectives of the programme and the ability to communicate these to others; along with knowledge of relevant editorial guidelines and awareness of BBC and statutory policies and regulations relevant to programme-making.

You will have a strong working knowledge of Scotland’s major public and political institutions, and be able to source and research information in relation to these which will form the basis of stories.

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.