Podcast Producer - London, United Kingdom - News UK Ltd

News UK Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

The Team:
Stories of our Times
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Your role: As a Podcast Producer, reporting to the Executive Producer, you will identify, pitch and develop compelling podcast episodes often in partnership with our talent, correspondents and producers. You will work closely with some of Britain's leading journalists, creating audio that sets the news agenda and examines major stories in a new light.

Day to day you will:

Identify existing internal podcast opportunities while producing new original podcast offerings, both daily and/or serialised storytelling
Manage podcast productions, including budgets, staffing and creative.
Work with staff on bestinclass digital podcast practices.
Partner with crossnetwork teams on marketing, sales, and communication strategies.
Forward plan and generate fresh ideas.
Potential unsociable hours including weekends

What we're looking for from you:
You are a Podcast Producer, proactive, organised and are great at multitasking.

You will have a great track record in audio storytelling with production on a successful podcast, news radio programme or relevant commercial podcasting know-how.

Knowledge of editing audio and familiar with software.
Proactive, a doer with excellent writing skills and creative ideas on how to make compelling content.
Confident working in a fastpaced environment and able to react positively to change
You will have an ability to influence and build long lasting relationships
Effective communication skills with the ability to inspire and lead small teams and work closely with presenters
A creative mind and ability to think differently

We are News Broadcasting
. Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond.

Life sounds good with
Virgin Radio*:
- home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend.
talkSPORT, the world's biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020
Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar and Aasmah Mir. And
talkRADIO is redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond.

Life at News Broadcasting
We champion
diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued.

We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.

We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women's Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News Broadcasting supporting the
Health and Wellbeing** of our staff.

We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a 'Bikes for Work' scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

A generous **pension
scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days **holiday
and up to 4 **volunteering
days per year;

- **Maternity
leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity
leave up to 2 weeks;

Wide range of **training
available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any
reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.