Chief Presenter, 5 Live

BBC; Salford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Radio 5 Live in Salford is seeking a co-presenter for 5 Live Breakfast to deliver the station’s flagship show five mornings a week from Salford studios. You will work with Naga Munchetty to host engaging interviews, alongside delivering live news and sport with clear editorial judgment.

As a highly experienced broadcaster and journalist, you’ll guide the day’s agenda, interrogate major stories, and inform and entertain diverse audiences across the UK. This is a 2-year fixed term contract.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience presenting live speech radio, especially in news or sport.
• Strong editorial judgment and knowledge of BBC policies.
• Experience scrutinising and explaining major breaking news stories.
• Excellent in-depth sporting knowledge and passion.
• Ability to engage the programme's audience.
• Rigorous journalistic integrity with the confidence to hold power to account.
• Warm personality with the ability to see the funny side of life.
• Creativity to generate original ideas for the programme.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Live radio presenting

Editorial judgment

Breaking news analysis

Sports knowledge

Audience engagement

Journalistic integrity

Creativity

Warm personality

Job description

Job Details

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 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.

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.

The application process

After submitting your responses to the application questions, shortlisted candidates may be asked to provide an audio submission and subsequently come to Salford to meet the 5 Live leadership and record pilots.

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 all aspects 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.

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

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.