Senior Data Journalist – Investigative & Data Visualization

BBC UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Discounted health care

Job summary

The BBC Verify team in London is seeking a senior data journalist for a 12-month fixed-term contract based at Broadcasting House. You will develop original data-driven stories and support daily and investigative output across BBC Verify and the wider BBC newsroom.

Ideal candidates will combine advanced data skills (R/Python, GIS, Flourish) with strong storytelling, able to pitch ideas and collaborate with designers, developers and editors to explain complex figures to a broad audience.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a specialist data journalism role, including bylined projects and original stories.
• Proven ability to develop news stories and interactives using software such as R or Python, spreadsheet software, Flourish and GIS software as well as familiarity with using AI responsibly.
• Demonstrable ability to combine data from different sources, whether unstructured data from many sources, or structured data in APIs, databases or spreadsheets.
• Demonstrable experience in advising non-specialists on how to understand and interpret data.
• Demonstrable experience of leading informal project teams, involving colleagues from design and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Work on short-term graphic or data requests, live page posts and longer-term projects and investigations.
• Explain and visualise the figures driving the headlines.
• Pitch original story ideas based on data with compelling treatments.

Skills

Data journalism

R/Python

Data storytelling

GIS & Viz

Lead projects

Tools

Flourish

GIS software

Job description

The BBC Verify team in London is seeking a senior data journalist for a 12-month fixed-term contract based at Broadcasting House. You will develop original data-driven stories and support daily and investigative output across BBC Verify and the wider BBC newsroom.

Ideal candidates will combine advanced data skills (R/Python, GIS, Flourish) with strong storytelling, able to pitch ideas and collaborate with designers, developers and editors to explain complex figures to a broad audience.