Journalist (Topic) Health

BBC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A major media organization is seeking a skilled individual for a Global Journalism role focused on Global Health. You'll research and produce engaging text and video content for diverse audiences, utilizing strong editorial judgment and video editing skills. Applicants should have substantial digital journalism experience and be adept with social media trends and monitoring tools. This full-time position includes flexibility in working hours and is based in London, offering a competitive salary range.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in digital journalism with a major outlet.
• Strong video editing and writing skills.
• Ability to identify trending Global Health stories.

Responsibilities

• Research and pitch story ideas aligning with audience expectations.
• Produce text and video stories from ideation to distribution.
• Utilize social media for trend spotting and audience engagement.

Skills

Editorial judgment

Video editing skills

Knowledge of FCP

Social listening tools

Writing and scripting

Trend analysis

Job description

Job Details

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time until end of August 2026.
DEPARTMENT: Global Journalism, Health team, BBC News
LOCATION: New Broadcasting House, London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 – £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience plus London weighting. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Flexibility in terms of the working week is required as the team is operational 7 days per week.

Purpose of the Role

Global Journalism is a key team within BBC World Service Languages. It provides high quality journalism and production, making text, video and social content that drives reach and engages audiences worldwide. Our core mission is to offer content to language services that enables them to cover and explain the world to their audiences, focusing on content that will grow those audiences.
The Global Health team sits within our department and provides text and short video content to World Service language services and BBC News. The aim of the team is to grow audiences by offering a regular stream of SEO optimised and audience informed text and video on the Global Health brief.
We are an enthusiastic, ambitious team focused on developing new ways to reach global audiences across BBC World Service languages. There are lots of opportunities to experiment and we are always looking to try out fresh ways of telling stories on social. As well as spotlighting great health content from across BBC outlets, we also produce our own original material for language services to use on their platforms.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Research and pitch fresh, on-trend ideas which meet the expectations of our audiences and adhere to the BBC editorial guidelines.
• Produce your own text and video stories within the Global health brief – from ideation to distribution to the BBC's 41 language services.
• Cover early, late or mid shifts across the week.
• Stay up to date with the latest editing trends in short video production and be able to use FCP or other editing software.
• Be aware of social video trends and proactively stay across the news agenda.
• Use social media listening and monitoring tools to identify emerging trends in the field of Global Health.
• Use monitoring tools to stay across WS language services’ websites, IG, TikTok, YouTube and FB accounts to spot overperforming stories that can be shared with wider audiences, and actively suggest these stories to the team manager.
• Write clear explanatory text stories and video scripts, and proactively stay up to date with style changes, verification processes, copyright, legal and editorial issues.
• Guide colleagues you may team up with through processes that ensure our journalism is the best it can be in terms of accuracy, verification, impartiality, editorial policy and legal stance.

Your Skills and Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• High standard of editorial judgment, writing, scripting and editing ability based on substantial digital journalism experience with a major media outlet.
• On top of trends in Global Health, with a sharp eye for spotting stories that will resonate well with WSL audiences across multiple regions.
• Strong video editing skills with knowledge of FCP and experience of text writing and editing skills. Well‑versed at scripting and editing short video.
• Experience using social listening and monitoring tools for discovering overperforming text and video content within the Global Health remit.
• Ability to maximise opportunities offered by existing and emerging technologies and manage resources and technical facilities comfortably.
• Strong planner capable of prioritising activities taking into account deadlines, staffing and resources.
• Demonstrable commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understanding how individual differences can benefit us.

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. It is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
If 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 is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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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.