Correspondent - Your Voice, Your BBC News

BBC; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BBC News as a key player in 'Your Voice, Your BBC News', where you'll lead the generation and reporting of stories driven by audience engagement. This hybrid role offers a chance to shape news coverage with creativity and strong editorial judgment, ensuring public concerns are at the forefront of our reporting.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave plus options to buy more

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and health care

Access to training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Exceptional news sense and strong journalistic record.
• Ability to generate stories with minimal input.
• Experience with user-generated content.

Responsibilities

• Originate and report multi-platform stories using audience suggestions.
• Collaborate with team members and programme editors.
• Deliver well-written packages and live content.

Skills

News Sense

Storytelling

Editorial Judgment

Relationship Building

Planning and Organizing

Job description

Package Description

Job Reference: 23857

Band: E

Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Continuing

Location: Leeds or Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will frequently attend the office alongside being on location and working from home

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 - 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, gym and much more .
  
  

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Job Introduction

This is your chance to be at the forefront of one of BBC News’ most important and high-profile projects. Your Voice, Your BBC News puts the audience at the heart of our coverage by developing stories they have suggested. You will take the lead in a team generating, developing and reporting stories from responses we’ve received through the website, on email and on WhatsApp. The role would suit a creative correspondent with a passion for the public and their concerns, a strong news sense and outstanding storytelling skills. You will be able to transform the grit of an audience submission into the gleaming pearl of a story. We want someone who can get the stories the public suggests onto the news.

Main Responsibilities

Originate, develop and report off-diary multi-platform stories using user-generated content and audience suggestions as a starting point.

Identify and initiate new ways to generate stories involving the audience and spot opportunities to tie in stories with the diary and changing news agenda.

Take the leading role in and responsibility for deciding how a story should be developed, but collaborate enthusiastically and respectfully with other team members.

Leverage strong relationships with programme editors to maximise impact.

Regularly provide well-written and well-produced packages and deliver live content from the field and in the studio.

Prioritise and plan activities to manage time efficiently and independently to meet deadlines, without relying on regular direction.

Exercise impeccable editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.

Present and explain complex information and ideas in an accessible manner, adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.

Are you the Right Candidate?

Exceptional news sense, excellent knowledge of the audiences of different programmes and instinctive understanding of interests of the public, demonstrated by a strong journalistic record.

A self-starter able to identify, generate and develop the right stories with little input. We want a journalist, not a presenter.

A spell-binding storyteller who regularly will provide well-written and well-produced packages, reports and items for bulletins, programmes and services across all media, including digital.

Enthusiasm for the public, respect for their interests and demonstrable experience of originating stories from user-generated content.

Work positively, flexibly and respectfully in a team in a role subject to changing priorities and circumstances.

Able to build and maintain strong relationships with programmes and Story Teams in a role that may involve significant collaboration.

Faultless planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.

Tenacious, productive, outcome-focused and willing to be judged on output with absolute commitment to making Your Voice, Your BBC News a success .

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.

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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.

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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