Journalist Weekend Producer - Truro, United Kingdom - BBC

Description

Journalism

Permanent - Full Time

Truro, GB, TR1 1UA


BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 15/04/2024


THE ROLE
Package Description


Band:
C


Contract:
Permanent Full-time


Location:
Truro - Radio Cornwall


Salary:
Upto £34,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Job Introduction

Weekend's in Devon and Cornwall are a key reason we live here, they are all about getting out and about and making the most of where we live and our weekend radio shows reflect that.

The new shared breakfast programme brings together the South West across Radio Devon and Cornwall combining high impact content and breaking news with the culture and lifestyle of our audience in both counties.

We're committed to telling amazing stories from our communities and bringing in new audiences.

This is a full time role with a focus on producing either our breakfast or daytime programmes on Saturday and Sunday and working with the wider audio team across a range of shifts mid week.

You'll need to be a confident communicator who can direct and shape our programmes live on air, your creativity will add to the sound of the shows and enable the presenters to relax and make great radio.

You'll be able to source and craft amazing audio for digital & linear and you may also be required to work on the multiplatform news rota reading bulletins, writing stories and reporting.

Main Responsibilities

We're looking for a talented & creative journalist.

You'll work 35 hours across our local audio output across seven days a week on a mixture of shifts that will include early and later starts and weekend working.

This role is for producers but may also include reporting & working across social, online and TV.

Are you the right candidate?

You'll have experience of creating radio content and know what makes a good programme. You'll be a great team player, know how to tell stories in a creative and engaging way.

You'll with an understanding of the stories that matter to our existing audiences and ideas about how we can grow audiences on BBC Sounds, Social and BBC News online.

We're looking for someone who is organised, self-motivated and bursting with original ideas.

Ideally, you'll have the skills (or be willing to learn) to support the wider team with news duties such as live reporting and newsreading.

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 in the document attached below.

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.

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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.