Senior Journalist, Vertical Video

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JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month FTC/attachment - Full time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: Salford or Cardiff
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £41,500 - £52,250 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Vertical Video Senior Journalists are responsible for driving brilliant moments into attention grabbing video - for the video playlist and for video on site and on social, including a range of planned and breaking news carousels. You'll oversee colleagues working across platforms, and have the ability to keep across multiple content areas to ensure the best clips are reaching our audiences. You will collaborate with teams in News, Sounds, Sport, iPlayer and others, every day.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join the team to help shape the future of video in news storytelling. The vertical video carousel is the first mobile-first video tool for BBC News' website and app and provides a unique opportunity for us to reach audiences with creative new formats and digitally native storytelling methods. You will be at the forefront of this process, making crucial decisions about content and focus.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• As a Senior Journalist on the team, you'll work with colleagues across the BBC and within News to showcase BBC content at its best.
• There's a huge opportunity to engage audiences we don't reach as well on platform. Vertical video is a key opportunity to do that - on and off platform.
• You'll be creative in the way you think about commissioning and storytelling, experimenting with different ways to reach audiences.
• You'll lead by example, sharing knowledge and skills with more junior members of the team and colleagues in other teams to produce content to the highest standard.
• You'll act as a facilitator of change, clearly communicating and distributing best practices between teams.
• You'll be confident at scripting, producing, and editing video - guiding correspondents and reporters to deliver in a way that works for all audiences.
• This role involves weekend and shift working.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE - ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A high standard of editorial judgment, writing ability and production skills based on substantial broadcast journalism experience.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of more than one team.
• Deliver content of the highest standard and within the required timeframe using available resources.
• Thorough understanding of how to tell stories for different audiences, with an emphasis on making news and other content, accessible and engaging to a broad range of audiences.
• Experience using audience research and analytics to develop ideas and grow audiences.
• In-depth understanding of the tools and techniques used to produce digital video in the BBC.
• Must be proficient in FCP and/or Adobe Premiere.
• Ability to think creatively and come up with new ideas for storytelling in video.
• Ability to allocate work to a team and check progress; ensure the professional contribution of staff and the quality of output.

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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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