Senior Journalist (Southampton)

Job Purpose

Salary: GBP37,845 - GBP50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Responsible for multi platform output, including the South Today regional TV news programmes. Focused on
production, news desk and news organiser shifts. Editorial control, selection and compilation of material, leading teams and planning and implementing effective use of resources. Occasional reporting and presenting bulletins for those with the required skills.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

This role involves newsdesk, planning and producing responsibilities and is not primarily a presentation role.
Responsible for originating and producing stories which may include scripting, editing, outputting, filming and presenting content across a range of BBC output.
Initiate, coordinate and supervise multiplatform deployments.
Commission and select relevant materials ensuring they meet expectations of our audiences and adhere to the BBC's editorial guidelines.
May include the production and presentation of location live or recorded material.
As required, to plan, commission and produce content for the BBC website, TV, graphics, radio and social platforms.
As required, to allocate work to a team and check progress; ensure the professional contribution of staff and the quality of output.
Seek ways to increase diversity in our coverage and to ensure that our output reflects the audiences we serve.
Deliver journalism of the highest standard and within the required timeframe using available resources.
To act as a facilitator for multiplatform working, clearly communicating and distributing best practices between teams.
Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.
At all times to carry out duties in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

A high standard of editorial judgment, writing ability and production skills based on substantial broadcast journalism experience.
Maximises opportunities offered by existing and emerging technologies to their fullest extent.
Ability to work effectively as a member of more than one team. Resolving conflicts as necessary.
Ability to manage resources, staff, technical facilities and budgets, in order to make challenging broadcasting in the most cost effective manner.
Demonstrates a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands how individual differences can benefit the BBC.
Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
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.
The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
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.

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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.