Senior Journalist - Digital Production

Package Description

• Job Reference: 20808
• Band: D
• Salary: Up to £54,000 plus London weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Location: Hybrid role based in London Broadcasting House, London.

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 and gym.

The senior journalist for production on the Digital News planning team is a pivotal new role responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating commissions by the team, ensuring stories are produced to the highest standard.

Main Responsibilities

• Working with other editors on the planning team, and those in story teams, the production SJ will be responsible for delivering first-class production on stories, focusing on sharp headlines; search optimisation; powerful promo images; push text; graphics and data; onward journeys and other story furniture.
• You will oversee all these elements as well as completing final checks and story sign-off.
• You will be a strong communicator, co-ordinating with the likes of picture and video teams, Visual Journalism, the Data Team and Design, and able to juggle multiple pieces of work at once, without compromising standards.
• You will have keen understanding of digital audiences, experience of SEO and demonstrable knowledge of how to apply audience data to grow our opportunity audiences.
• You will work five-day weeks, Monday to Friday, typically midday-20:00, with the occasional weekend.
• Finally, you will also support the planning assistant editors in the smooth running of the planning operation, and in generating and executing plans around big news events.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate must have:

• Excellent editorial judgement with significant experience, overseeing all stages of the digital editing and production process to publication, in text, in English.
• Skilled at crafting clear, compelling, clickable headlines, and identifying the strongest visuals for selling a story.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of SEO best practice, and using data to shape decisions and reach new audiences.
• A strong understanding of audience needs and how digital consumption is evolving on different platforms.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a range of key stakeholders including News Content teams, Picture Desk, Design, and Visual Journalism, to ensure stories are delivered to brief and to deadline.
• Excellent organisational skills and experience of co-ordinating multiple stories and projects at the same time.

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.