Camera Journalist, BBC Scotland - EXTEND

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Camera Journalist, BBC Scotland - EXTEND

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Package Description

Extend: EX2324

Job Reference: 22855

Band: C

Salary: £27,300 - £32,533 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role. The working pattern is a 35 hour week, eight hour shifts starting at 08.30, 09.30 or 11.30, Monday to Friday and two eight hours shifts every sixth weekend (with days off in lieu on the following Mon and Tuesday).

Location: Office Base is Glasgow but the job requires working across the central belt of Scotland, and occasionally further afield.

• 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 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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk . For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk .

EXTEND

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.

If you'd like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage .

Job Introduction

Do you have a vision for how to help develop the look and impact of BBC News' visual output in Scotland?

We are looking for a skilled operator of broadcast or other camera equipment, who can bring energy and ideas to the role. An eye for good television and digital news and an instinct for visual storytelling are important. Someone to help deliver compelling content on stories from the country's diverse communities.

Main Responsibilities

• The job involves shooting and on occasion editing news stories for Reporting Scotland, Reporting Scotland at Seven and providing video content for our Online and Digital output. In this role, you'll be expected to use a range of video cameras for newsgathering. Experience of flying a drone camera would be helpful. Avid is the edit platform in our bases, so we will want you to know or be willing to learn this.
• The post requires learning the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and understanding BBC News' need for impartiality.
• This job is part of a Central Belt team of camera journalists, so there will be regular deployments in a camera vehicle across the country.
• In a 35 hour week, excluding breaks, you will be asked to work on shift to our evening bulletins, Reporting Scotland and the Reporting Scotland at Seven, and to work at the weekend on occasion too.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate will work well under pressure and be able to cope when news breaks, and be expected to become confident in a live news environment.
We're particularly interested in hearing from people who might bring a different perspective and widen the agenda of BBC News.

You will:

• Have proven interest in the news, or experience in journalism.
• Experience in the use of a range of cameras, both broadcast and professional for filming the news.
• Experience of creative camerawork and editing.
• The ability to work in a small co-dependant team with other journalists.
• Also be a self-starter, able to deliver stories and story treatments on your own on occasion. Ability to engage with members of the public.
• Have awareness of your, and others, health and safety while filming on what can be developing and changing stories and deployments.
• Have a willingness to be deployed to cover news stories across Scotland in a camera vehicle and also, on occasion, abroad.

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.

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. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here .

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

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.

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