Chief Presenter, 5 Live

BBC Group and Public Services; Eccles; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

35‑hour working week

25 days annual leave (+ buy extra 5)

Defined pension scheme

Dental and health care benefits

Gym discounts

Job summary

BBC Radio 5 Live is seeking a seasoned co-presenter for the 5 Live Breakfast show from Salford, working with Naga Munchetty to deliver live news, sport and discussion five days a week.

You will lead interviews, deliver breaking stories, and drive editorial angles while engaging a broad UK audience and contributing to digital and social media growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience presenting on live speech radio (news/sport preferred).
• Strong editorial judgment and knowledge of BBC policies.
• Proven ability to scrutinise and explain major breaking stories.
• Excellent sporting knowledge and passion.
• Ability to engage 5 Live’s diverse audience.
• Rigorous journalism with accountability.
• Creative to generate original ideas for the show.

Responsibilities

• Broadcast a live 3-hour double-headed breakfast show five days a week from Salford.
• Deliver breaking news and major stories as they happen.
• Lead editorial interviews with guests across news, politics and sport.
• Contribute to topical news angles and radio treatments.
• Grow audiences and strengthen listener relationships.
• Participate in development and performance reviews.
• Support digital and social media strategy for BBC Sounds and platforms.

Skills

Live radio presentation

Editorial judgment

Breaking news analysis

Sports knowledge

Audience engagement

Journalistic integrity

Interviewing skills

Creative thinking

Job description

JOB BAND: Fp
CONTRACT TYPE: 2 year fixed term contract
DEPARTMENT: Chief Presenter, 5 Live
LOCATION: Salford

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

BBC Radio 5 Live is the voice of the UK, home of live news, sport, and conversation that matters. It’s BBC Radio’s main outlet for breaking news, bringing its audience major news stories as they happen, and providing context with wide-ranging analysis and discussion. As co-presenter of 5 Live Breakfast, you’ll work alongside Naga Munchetty to deliver the station’s flagship news show five days a week from our Salford studios. A highly experienced broadcaster and journalist, you’ll help the station lead the day’s agenda, interrogating the big stories of the day, interviewing guests from across the news and sport spectrum, bringing a broad and deep knowledge of UK and global news, current affairs and sport. You’ll be able to engage, inform, and entertain audiences, appealing to news and sports fans of all ages and from all backgrounds and areas across the UK.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

BBC Radio 5 Live is the home of live news and sport for the UK. It’s the BBC’s key outlet for breaking news, bringing the audience major stories as they happen, and providing context with wide-ranging analysis and discussion. Working alongside some of the biggest names in broadcasting this is an opportunity to help shape the future of the station’s flagship news programme and one of the UK’s best loved Breakfast shows. 5 Live is a station renowned for putting listeners at the heart of its output and this is your chance to experience and build on the unique relationship 5 Live has with its audience. Joining a hard-working, experienced editorial team that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and journalistic rigour, you’ll play a key broadcast role in shaping a programme delivering outstanding content for millions of people across the UK.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Broadcast a live 3-hour double-headed breakfast show 5 days a week from Salford.
• Deliver breaking news and bring audiences major stories as they happen.
• Lead editorially balanced interviews with guests across news, current affairs, politics and sport
• Contribute to the programme’s editorial process with topical news and sport angles and creative radio treatments
• Build strong relationships with the 5 Live listenership and grow audiences
• Undertake regular development and review sessions
• Contribute to the growth of 5 Live’s digital and social media strategy, to build audiences on BBC Sounds and other platforms.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Extensive experience of presentation within live speech radio, ideally in news and/or sport.
• Strong editorial judgment and knowledge of BBC editorial policy.
• Demonstrable experience in scrutinising and explaining major breaking news stories
• Excellent in-depth sporting knowledge and passion.
• Ability to engage and involve 5 Live’s audience
• Rigorous journalistic integrity with the confidence to hold people with power to account.
• Warm personality with the ability to see the funny side of life.
• Creativity to identify and generate original ideas to implement within the programme.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered.

For any queries, please contact [e-mail]

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of the duties involved.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Information at a Glance

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Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35‑hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

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We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

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Disability confident

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