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Job Reference: 23091

Band: D

Salary: £39,800 - £49,800 for Full Time depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Continuing, 17.5 hours per week across Saturday and Sunday

Location: Mailbox, Birmingham

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.

Job Information

Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra and provides news to meet the needs of the networks' target audience of 15-24 year olds. It's a highly creative multi-platform team with a record for delivering original and impactful journalism for its diverse audiences.

Our Senior Journalist Reporters work on our radio and digital content - helping to lead the team and drive our editorial ambitions.

Main Responsibilities

This role is focused on our weekend output - a mix of radio bulletins and digital and social content.

You will oversee bulletins on R1, 1xtra and Asian Network, and lead the weekend team of newsreaders and reporters. Newsbeat's tone of voice is vibrant, young and feels distinct to other BBC content. It's an ideas-driven team and you'll be expected to drive creativity across the weekend.

You'll also get involved in our digital output, working on written or video pieces and overseeing online reporters.

You will support the management team including the assistant editors and editors and you'll need an understanding of how to curate the daily feed of agency and BBC content, technically and editorially.

Are you the Right Candidate?

We are looking for an experienced reporter skilled in radio and digital production techniques with a clear understanding of the role of Radio 1 and 1Xtra, their target audiences and how Newsbeat can best serve them.

You should be able to evidence original, impact journalism where stories have reached underserved audiences, and have the ability to use creative flair to explain stories whilst maintaining standards of accuracy and impartiality.

In addition to having experience of live broadcasting and digital knowledge, we're looking for someone with the ability to lead teams and help to build an inclusive and collaborative department - mentoring junior members of the team and giving constructive feedback to colleagues.

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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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

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.

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.