Social Media Journalist, Newspods

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Package Description:

• Band: C
• Salary: £27,300 - £43,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Contract type: 12 month Fixed term contract
• Location: London Broadcasting House

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:

• 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 and gym

Job Introduction:

We are offering one Social Media Journalist role to work in BBC News Long Form Audio, producing social media content for BBC News podcasts. In the Long Form Audio department, we make radio programmes, podcasts and digital products, including More or Less, File on 4, The Bottom Line, The Coming Storm, Marianna in Conspiracyland and I’m Not A Monster. Within the department, the BBC News Podcast team also makes podcasts, including Newscast, Americast, Ukrainecast, The Global Story and The Today Podcast.

For this role, you will be required to work across all BBC News Podcasts. You may also be asked to work on Long Form Audio Programmes. This role will require some weekend work on a rota system.

Main Responsibilities:

• Editing a social media platform - its look and feel, its editorial focus and its impact.
• Generating creative ideas, and encourage and support the development of other people’s ideas.
• Producing digital content.
• Working through editorial and legal issues.
• Developing the digital brand of the podcast or programme.

Are you the right Candidate?

• You will have experience producing social media content.
• You will have experience growing a digital audience.
• You will have experience working in a team to produce high quality creative content.
• You will have experience researching and booking relevant and engaging guests for BBC News content.
• You will have experience of working in news and current affairs.
• You will have copywriting experience.
• It is preferable that you will have experience using BBC systems such as Wolftech, Jupiter, and Open Media.
• You will be able to demonstrate insights into the social media and podcast market.
• You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the wider BBC objectives and thorough understanding of the BBC's Editorial Guidelines.

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. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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.

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.

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing Broadcast Media Production and Distribution