Package Information
Job Reference: 21463
Band: D
Up to £50,000 + London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Continuing
Location: London Broadcasting House, W1A
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 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.
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Job Introduction
Panorama is the BBC’s multi-award-winning flagship currents affairs series, making films for BBC One and iPlayer, with Value for All news impact across multiple platforms and outlets, including socials. Panorama produces a broad portfolio of films including undercover investigations, social affairs, international affairs news reactive fast turnarounds, access documentaries, and presenter led films.
Main Responsibilities
Each Panorama has a tailored impact plan incorporating digital, social and news impact, as well as press and publicity. This role offers the chance to reshape and lead on the impact and digital strategies, for Panorama, enabling us to bring the best of Panorama's original journalism and investigative reporting to the widest most diverse audience.
1. To create an impact plan for every film, working with the relevant Panorama Executive Producer. This will include TV, radio, news online and social.
2. To line manage the broadcast journalist who will be editing and repurposing Panorama content, helping them to come up with new and engaging ways to package our content for different audiences on different platforms
3. To liaise, on behalf of the Panorama Senior team, with Commissioning Group as well as directly with news outlets and press and publicity teams both within the BBC and outside, as required.
4. To have a clear understanding of the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and how they are applied to our journalism.
5. The ability to exercise impeccable editorial judgment.
6. To write related stories for News Online.
7. To be prepared to work flexibly when the TX requirements demand it, working calmly to tight deadlines.
Please note that this role will involve working some weekends and late evenings, which will be primarily managed through comp/toil.
Are you the right candidate?
We are looking for an experienced journalist who is able to demonstrate the following;
8. Good working knowledge of social media and which types of content work best on which platforms and substantial experience of the creative and inventive use of social media and producing widely shared content and managing digital communities.
9. Excellent writing skills, the ability to spot a news-line, awareness of key BBC and external relationships and ability to implement a publishing strategy that will allow Panorama to maximise its content on multiple platforms for greatest impact.
10. Proficient knowledge of editing video and using FCPX and other relevant BBC systems.
11. Significant line management experience with the ability to lead a team editorially and imaginatively and to manage performance.
12. Some editing ability on FCPX and/or other BBC systems; a thorough knowledge of the BBC Editorial Guidelines and compliance policies, as well as the ability to exercise editorial judgment, sometimes under pressure, are essential.
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. 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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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.