Video Journalist - Your Voice, Your BBC News

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Salary: Up to £46,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Continuing

Location: Leeds or Salford - It is a hybrid role, the successful candidate will frequently attend the office alongside working from home. We’re happy to discuss flexible 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, gym and much more.

Job Introduction: This is your chance to be at the forefront of one of BBC News’ most important and high-profile projects. Your Voice, Your BBC News puts the audience at the heart of our coverage by developing stories they have suggested.

You will work with other team members to generate and develop stories from responses we’ve received through the website, on email and on WhatsApp. The role would suit a creative video journalist with a passion for the public and their concerns and a strong news sense; who can spot the needle in the haystack of responses, know where to find the missing fabric and what pattern to follow to sew together the story. It will involve a lot of collaboration both inside and outside the team and you may be required to oversee the work of more junior team members at times.

Main Responsibilities:

• Suggest and develop original multi-platform network stories using user-generated content as a starting point.
• Gather and produce material, routinely self-shooting and editing complete packages for use across multiple platforms.
• Collaborate enthusiastically and respectfully with other team members and take a lead in project delivery.
• Prioritise and plan activities to manage time efficiently and independently to meet deadlines, without relying on regular direction.
• Liaise closely with other teams and departments in the BBC to ensure that output material is shared, duplication is avoided, and best practice is upheld.
• Use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, capture, edit and deliver content for all BBC News outlets and platforms, including online, TV and audio, to the highest professional standards.
• Exercise editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• The role is primarily producing, shooting and editing rather than reporting.

Are you the Right Candidate?

• Ability to gather and prepare audio and video material for use on any service, recognising the distinct requirements of different types of output, self-shooting and editing routinely as the main focus of the role.
• Significant recent experience as a journalist, with a good knowledge of production techniques and the ability to create content for online, radio and TV.
• Strong record of originating and developing stories for national news programmes from user-generated content.
• Enthusiasm for the public, respect for their interests and desire to speak to them.
• Commitment to be based in Yorkshire, attend the Leeds office frequently and regularly, collaborate in-person with colleagues and be available to the Leeds team.
• Work positively, flexibly and respectfully in a team in a role subject to changing priorities and circumstances.
• Productive, outcome-focused and willing to be judged on output rather than time spent on a task.
• Effective planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.

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. 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.