Senior Journalist, Growth Editor Weather - Cardiff, United Kingdom - BBC

BBC

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Journalism- Fixed Term - Full Time- Cardiff, GB, CF10 1FT- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date:
THE ROLE:

Package Description:

Job Reference: 14181

Band:
D

Salary:
£37,845 - £47,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 12 month attachment/FTC - Shift pattern
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Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
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Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
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Benefits

We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction:

The Digital Growth team is a multi-disciplinary team that aims to increase the reach and impact of BBC News and Weather digital output.

We are looking for a creative and self-starting Senior Journalist to work with our Weather team, and collaborate closely with News planning and on-the-day teams to strengthen our digital output.

We want to ensure we're maximising reach and engagement on and off-platform, using data from multiple sources.

Main Responsibilities:

Input realtime audience weather and weatherrelated information trends to the Weather team (daily, weekly, monthly) as well as mediumterm and longerterm audience development opportunities (tactical and strategic).
Maintain a Weather search calendar which supports weather teams in their editorial planning and maximises audience to evergreen content.
Provide audience insight, story ideas and a pre

- and post-publication optimisation advice to ensure we're meeting audience needs and maximising the visibility of Weather content.

Analysing performance of content published and feeding this back to relevant teams to inform the next stages of Weather's digital content development.
Collaborate with the Climate & Science team on relevant stories.
Strengthen the BBC's datainformed culture by providing training as required and supporting use of data and insights at all stages of the content production and publication process.
Collaborate with Product teams on strategic growth initiatives and developments.

Are you the right person?:

Expertise in Search Engine Optimisation and experience of creating content for a mix of social platforms.
Proficiency in data analysis, with a high level of numeracy. Experience of online analytics, tools and dashboards, such as Chartbeat, Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics, Google Trends and social listening tools, and the ability to translate data into editorial action.
Editorial experience and understanding of content production, formats, user needs, newsroom and editorial workflows and daily deadlines.
Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the team's work, and its output.

About the BBC:

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.

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.