Journalist (Radio Nottingham) - Extend

Contract: 6 months attachment/ Fixed Term contract; Full-Time

Location: Nottingham (Office based)

Band: C

Job Reference: 24068

Extend: EX2324

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

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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.

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.

Job Introduction: BBC Radio Nottingham aims to set the agenda for our city and county and we’re looking for a talented, creative journalist to join our brilliant team. We give our audiences everything they need to know about life in Nottinghamshire combined with a big dose of entertainment and fun. We strive to reflect everything that’s great about Notts - from the buzzing city of Nottingham to the world famous Sherwood Forest. We pride ourselves on shining a light on what’s not quite right too – asking tough questions on behalf of our audiences and holding our local and national officials to account on the issues that matter.

You’ll be a journalist working across our audio output from our mid-morning show to content for BBC Sounds. You’ll love working across all our teams to identify content that we can share across our platforms and be full of ideas on how to collaborate with colleagues across the East Midlands and the wider BBC.

Main Responsibilities: We’re looking for a driven and passionate journalist who wants to help us reach new audiences with the content that matters to them. You’ll know who our target audiences are, and understand what they’re looking for both in digital and linear output. You will be full of creative ideas on how to engage those audiences in new and innovative ways. You’ll know how to turn content around to a tight deadline but be equally comfortable taking on a long term, long-form commission too. We’re looking for a journalist who enjoys working in a busy news environment, who can collaborate across multiple teams and feel at home with breaking news, human-interest stories and organising hold to account Hot Seat segments. You’ll also have an ability to produce a steady stream of your own original ideas.

Are you the right candidate? The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate creativity in producing audio content and have experience of producing output that can be tailored for publication in a variety of ways. You will also be able to forward plan and contribute to a strategy to maintain BBC Radio Nottingham as the number one station in its marketplace.

You will have an excellent knowledge of what works on social media across all platforms and how to use it to drive audiences to our brand. Confidence in using the BBC ViLOR broadcast desk; Open Media and dira! playout and editing software is desirable.

About The BBC: We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. 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.