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Journalist, BBC Sport EXTEND
Journalism
Fixed Term - Full Time
GB
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 11/02/2025
THE ROLE
* Job Reference: 21391
* Band: C
* Salary: £28,000 - £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
* Contract type:
o 1 x Journalist, Digital roles: FTC ending 20/03/2026
o 1 x Journalist, At Your Service roles: FTC ending 20/03/2026
* Location: Salford
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 and gym and much more.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Main Responsibilities
Responsibilities would include some of the following:
* Being part of a team of writers and digital content makers who spot great stories and generate original journalism.
* Breaking quick, accurate, and engaging written news stories under pressure and to a high standard.
* Helping to make our coverage of events even more engaging through creative storytelling on a variety of platforms.
* Working on live sporting events – helping produce our industry leading live texts, reports, news and features.
* Suggesting creative content ideas to News Editors for on the day commissions reacting to the day’s news agenda or big social media talking points to inform and entertain our audience.
* Producing concise content or short reports from agency copy or other material from BBC departments and programmes.
* Being receptive to feedback and good at building positive working relationships with peers.
Early morning, evening and weekend work are also features of this role. 4 x 10 hour shifts per week.
Are you the right candidate?
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
* Demonstrable professional experience of finding and generating stories for a digital audience.
* You will be able to write quickly, accurately and succinctly.
* Proven and sound editorial judgement with the ability to make quick decisions under pressure.
* You will have a passion for the stories that are generated by sport and be able to tell us about this in your application/CV.
* Demonstrable engagement with social media, and an understanding of what sports fans are talking about and what they want to read.
* Interested in the current news and sport news agenda.
* A proven understanding of how to optimise storytelling for mobile phones.
* You will be a collaborator and be able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
* Mindset is important: we want enthusiasm, ideas and creativity coupled with good communication and organisational skills.
* You will have a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the workplace and output.
This is not an entry level role, we're looking for candidates with experience within the area, please review the criteria for the role before applying.
About the BBC
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.
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.
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