Journalist (Content Producer) in Carlisle

Location: Carlisle

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: Nations & Regions

Proposed Salary Range: £27,600 - £34,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

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.

Purpose of the Role

How would you like to be part of the team at BBC Radio Cumbria? We have an opportunity for a great content producer to join us. You'll be finding and telling great stories from across Cumbria, and you’ll be a production whizz! Whatever the story, we want someone that is creative and can help bring stories to life for our listeners. You’ll be a self-starter, who knows how to find the best stories and guests, but we also want a responsible pair of hands with an understanding of BBC values and editorial guidelines. As well as delivering for radio, you’ll also need to think about digital content, including photos and videos. A knowledge of Cumbria would be an advantage, but we're mainly after someone with great ideas and experience of set up programme production.

Why Join the Team

Radio Cumbria is one of the most listened to BBC local stations in England. It has a special connection to its audience. Through our social media and digital platforms, we now reach more people than ever. You’ll have an important place in this friendly team, chasing stories, getting them to air and making them sound amazing on air.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact:

• You’ll be a content producer for BBC Radio Cumbria. Working with presenters and executive producer, you'll be mainly producing content for our shows.
• You’ll be a key member of the team, crafting content, briefing guests and adding a creative touch to bring stories to life on the radio.
• You may also be asked to create digital content, for BBC online, social media and the BBC Sounds rail.
• You may occasionally be asked to cover other shifts on the rota, which could include early or late shifts, or weekend working.
• The on-air and set-up production of shows on BBC Radio Cumbria where editorial judgment is exercised in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial content.
• Use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards.
• To prioritise and plan activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources available.
• Significant recent experience as a content producer, especially programme set up production, with a good knowledge of production techniques.
• 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.

Essential Criteria:

• A self-starter who knows a good local story and how to find it.
• Ability to use technology as required, especially experience of the technology for on-air studio programme production.
• Demonstrates a creative approach to storytelling.
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people, especially the programme presenter and other members of the programme team.

Desirable:

• Experience of bulletin reading.

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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

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 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 or on an orchestra conditions contract.

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 in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

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: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk