Journalist

BBC Group and Public Services; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 37,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Competitive salary package

Job summary

BBC Group and Public Services in Wales is seeking a Digital Journalist to join BBC Wales News. You will originate and produce engaging stories for online audiences across the site, app and social, shaping content around audience needs and public service values.

You’ll work across Wales and beyond, writing compelling headlines, packaging content for maximum impact, and using audience insight to inform story selection and presentation.

Qualifications

• Recent experience producing high-quality digital journalism with strong editorial judgement, accuracy and news sense.
• Demonstrable ability to originate engaging story ideas and deliver them effectively for online audiences, to deadline, while managing multiple priorities within a collaborative team.
• Strong writing, headline and structuring skills, with the ability to tailor content for different platforms.
• Experience using core digital tools and workflows, including publishing systems and multimedia production.

Responsibilities

• Pitch, produce and deliver original digital stories across a broad range of topics, driven by audience motivations and news value.
• Write and package content for maximum impact, including headlines, visuals, explainers and formats suited to site and social.
• Use audience insight and data to inform story selection, presentation and follow-ups.
• Plan, produce and publish to tight deadlines, working closely with editors to maximise reach and engagement.
• Adapt content for different platforms and audiences, ensuring clarity, accuracy and relevance.

Skills

Digital journalism

Editorial judgement

Strong writing

Multimedia production

Tools

Publishing systems

Multimedia production tools

Job description

Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT
| Bangor, GBR, LL57 2BY

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term Contract / Attachment, Part Time (21 hours) until March 2027
DEPARTMENT: BBC Wales News
LOCATION: Wales, hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 – £37,050 (pro-rata) per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Nid yw sgiliau'r Iaith Gymraeg yn hanfodol ar gyfer y swydd hon / Welsh language skills aren't required for this role.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join BBC Wales News as a Digital Journalist, helping us to grow a distinctive, audience-first digital offer with a clear focus on public service. You’ll originate and produce compelling stories across a broad range of topics, shaping content around audience needs and behaviours. Working across the News site, app and social, you’ll deliver clear, engaging journalism that reaches and resonates with audiences across Wales and beyond.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is a chance to work at the heart of a fast-moving digital newsroom with real scope to shape what we do. You’ll collaborate with experienced journalists and specialists, experiment with formats, and see your original ideas travel. Your work will directly influence how we serve audiences across Wales and beyond — helping us build a more relevant, inclusive and engaging digital news service for a variety of audiences on and off platform.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Pitch, produce and deliver original digital stories across a broad range of topics, driven by audience motivations and news value.
• Write and package content for maximum impact, including headlines, visuals, explainers and formats suited to site and social.
• Use audience insight and data to inform story selection, presentation and follow-ups.
• Plan, produce and publish to tight deadlines, working closely with editors to maximise reach and engagement.
• Adapt content for different platforms and audiences, ensuring clarity, accuracy and relevance.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Recent experience producing high-quality digital journalism with strong editorial judgement, accuracy and news sense.
• Demonstrable ability to originate engaging story ideas and deliver them effectively for online audiences, to deadline, while managing multiple priorities within a collaborative team.
• Strong writing, headline and structuring skills, with the ability to tailor content for different platforms.
• Experience using core digital tools and workflows, including publishing systems and multimedia production.
• Experience of working on quality Social and Digital Video content.

DESIRABLE :

• Experience using audience data to inform commissioning and evaluate performance.
• Ability to produce content in a range of formats, including video, live pages or visual explainers.
• Familiarity with BBC systems and workflows (e.g. Optimo, Chartbeat).
• Knowledge of Welsh audiences, communities or key issues.

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.

Redeployment

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

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.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

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.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.