North West Online Senior Journalist - Salford - EXTEND
Journalism
Fixed Term - Full Time
Salford, GB, M50 2QH
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 08/05/2025
THE ROLE
Package Description
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference:23065
Band:D
Salary: £39,800 - £50,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 7mths Fixed Term Contract / Attachment - Full time
Location: Office Base is Salford.
This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
* 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life 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.
Job Introduction
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team.
The BBC North West Online team covers one of the busiest and most diverse news patches in England. A large proportion of our output appears on the BBC News Front Page too, helping us achieve a rapidly rising average of 10 million page views per week.
Main Responsibilities
* As a Senior Journalist, you will help to lead our team of Journalists who produce content for local, regional, national and international audiences.
* You will have substantial experience in text-based journalism as well as some experience as a sub-editor.
* If you have expertise in social media and/or digital video production, we’d love to hear about it too.
* You will be expected to news edit, sub and publish stories and collaborate with colleagues in radio, television and social media.
Are you the right candidate?
* Our ideal candidate will be a superb, experienced, ideas-driven journalist with a strong pedigree in daily news journalism.
* You will have experience as a news editor and sub-editor and thrive under deadline pressure.
* You will have the people skills to support and challenge reporters of varying levels of experience.
* You’ll be able to demonstrate your knowledge of social media as a newsgathering tool and to promote our content.
* You will also have excellent knowledge of media law and the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines.
* We would love you to have a track record of original, agenda-setting journalism.
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.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC.
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.
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.
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