North West Online Senior Journalist - Salford - EXTEND

Package Description

Extend: EX2324

Job Reference:23065

Band:D

Salary: £39,800 - £50,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 7mths Fixed Term Contract / Attachment - Full time

Location: Office Base is Salford.

This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

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.

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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.

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The BBC North West Online team is lucky enough to cover one of the busiest and most diverse news patches in England. If anything of significance happens in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, the Isle of Man, or much of Cheshire, we’re on it. A large proportion of our output appears on the BBC News Front Page too, helping us achieve a rapidly rising average of 10 million page views per week. We have offices at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, Liverpool, and Blackburn and work very closely with colleagues from North West Tonight, Radio Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire and our social media specialists.

Main Responsibilities

In response to audience behaviour, we’re continuously increasing the amount of content we produce.

• As a Senior Journalist, you will help to lead our team of Journalists who produce content for local, regional, national and international audiences.
• You will have substantial experience in text-based journalism as well as some experience as a sub-editor.
• If you have expertise in social media and/or digital video production, we’d love to hear about it too as we work in a multi-platform way.
• As a Senior Journalist you will be expected to news edit (deciding the stories we cover and how we do so, as well as allocating them between reporters), sub and publish stories (ensuring they are accurate, fair, balanced, concise and well-written) and collaborate with colleagues in radio, television and social media to deliver stories in a multi-platform way.

Are you the right candidate?

• Our ideal candidate will be a superb, experienced, ideas-driven journalist with a strong pedigree who is well-honed in daily news journalism (online, newspapers, agencies).
• You will have already gained some experience as a news editor and sub-editor and thrive under considerable deadline pressure.
• You will have the people skills to be able to support and sometimes challenge reporters of varying levels of experience and skill.
• You’ll be able to demonstrate your knowledge of social media both as a newsgathering tool and to effectively promote our content.
• You will also have brilliant news judgement and excellent, current knowledge of media law and the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines. Audiences are at the heart of the BBC and you will be passionate about stories for all communities across our region and hungry to break stories and tell them in a new and innovative way.
• We would love you to have a track record of original, agenda-setting journalism and an understanding of story-led multiplatform content is beneficial.

About the BBC

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