Job Description:

Job information Journalist (BBC Essex) - EXTEND from the Company BBC, this latest Journalist (BBC Essex) - EXTEND job vacancy is located in the city Chelmsford CM located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Journalist field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Journalism Permanent - Full Time Chelmsford, GB, CM2 9AB BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST Job Closing Date: 21/08/2024

THE ROLE

Package Description

Extend: EX2324

Job Reference: 16706

Band: C

Salary: £27,300 - £32,481 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Office Base is Chelmsford - BBC Essex

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 Introduction

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You're broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

If you'd like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.

BBC Essex is an exciting multimedia newsroom serving an audience who are distinctly different, but with a definitive Essex identity. We're looking for an experienced, versatile Journalist to join the team at BBC Essex. You'll need to be hands on and able to work right across the audio output and other platforms, on a range of shifts from production to reporting. You'll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience.

We want a driven and passionate person who is keen to reach new audiences through our programmes and online. You'll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multi-platform story under a tight deadline.

The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases - we want original and inclusive ideas that help reflect the diverse audience in Essex.

Main Responsibilities

You'll be reporting live into programmes, producing and outputting programmes or gathering material for use on audio platforms, and for online and TV. You'll be able to use a range of audio and digital equipment to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium. You may be required to present content on radio, TV or online - both live and recorded. You'll have sound editorial judgement and be able to seek out the best contributors from a wide range of backgrounds. Clear, confident communication is important and you'll have the ability to develop story ideas and produce accurate and impartial journalism, and have excellent writing skills for producing content on multiple platforms.

Are you the right candidate?

Inclusivity, respect, team work and creativity are important to us. You'll need to demonstrate these values as well as have passion to serve local audiences, and our plans to grow our impact with all audiences across BBC Local. You'll be able to embrace new technology and be good at building relationships with a diverse range of people and understand how to build lasting contacts in our communities. You will have the ability to work flexibly and efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines.

You will also:

• Have significant recent experience as a journalist, with a good knowledge of production techniques.
• Be able demonstrate sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC's distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience.
• Have the ability to use technology as required, in order to gather material for broadcast.
• Understand how a team works effectively.
• Be able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
• Demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the BBC.
• Have effective 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.
• Have the ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output.
• Be flexible and adaptable to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
• Have an understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to broadcasting.

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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

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.

Keywords : Chelmsford jobs

Closed Date : 2024-11-29