Journalist, Saturday Breakfast, BBC Southampton

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Package Description

• Job Reference: 21181
• Band: C
• Salary: £27,300 - £32,533 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Contract type: Permanent role – part time (0.2 EFT)
• Location: Office Base is Southampton

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.

Benefits

• Negotiable salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Defined pension scheme
• Discounted dental, health care, gym and much more

Job Introduction

BBC Radio Solent is looking for a Journalist – an audio content producer – to join its talented team of broadcast journalists at our studios in Southampton. This role will be studio producing our Saturday Breakfast programme, which is shared with BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Oxford, serving a TSA of more than three million people across five counties.

We’re looking for an experienced radio producer with excellent audio and storytelling skills to help us reflect the lives of the counties’ residents in our content. You’ll have experience setting up and producing great radio, originating stories and creating audio content for digital platforms.

Main Responsibilities

• Creativity and storytelling are essential core skills.
• Engage the audience across the region with compelling stories, high production values and creative flare.
• Originate content and ideas that engage the communities across all the five counties we cover.
• Share relevant stories on digital platforms as well as on the radio.
• Make the output relevant to our diverse audience and look for opportunities to increase and maximise the reach of our content.
• Consistently achieve high journalistic standards and uphold the BBC Editorial Guidelines.

Are you the right candidate?

• Be a team player brimming with ideas on news stories to share with the residents of the South.
• Recognise how to share those stories in a variety of ways, not just on the radio, but on digital platforms as well.
• Understand how to tell a story in a way in which our listeners can understand and engage with it.
• Know the BBC’s strategic aims and how the content you produce helps BBC Local achieve its target reach.
• Add value to an item using social media.
• Bring in new contributors, voices and guests, caring about making your content reach a wide and diverse audience.
• Work alongside the wider BBC South news operation where we are establishing new workflows, requiring adaptability and teamwork.
• Possess excellent communication skills.

This role is one day a week, on a Saturday. The contractual base will be BBC Radio Solent (Southampton).

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 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.

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.