Senior Journalist, News on iPlayer

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Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 21863
Band: D
Salary: £43,200 – £53,500 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 12 month attachment/FTC
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
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 and gym.

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Job Introduction
News on iPlayer is a pioneering multidisciplinary team, charged with delivering, creating and curating the best of BBC News on iPlayer. The team aims to serve and grow audiences consuming news on our streaming platform, both on demand and live. As a Senior Journalist, you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver the best of BBC News on iPlayer – curating, originating and co-ordinating a wide variety of content for all audiences.

Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Journalist on the team you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC to showcase BBC News at its best. You will use analytics and audience research confidently to help guide decisions, curating, modifying and tweaking our output day-to-day to deliver the very best content to our on-demand and live audiences. Experimentation, piloting and continual improvement are key to success.

Are you the right candidate?
The successful candidate should have:

• A thorough understanding of analytics; how audiences consume video on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content on iPlayer.
• Knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content on iPlayer.
• Proven ability to edit video, with demonstrable knowledge of BBC News’ tools and techniques to create video (TV and Digital Video) output.
• Understanding of video tooling, including FCP X and tools used for BBC News’ workflows.
• Willingness to work inside a multi-disciplinary team, in an agile, sprint-led way.
• Demonstrable experience of being a team player.
• Capability to juggle competing editorial demands.

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. 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.

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.

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