Package Description
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference: 21182
Band: B
Salary: £24,280 - £26,987 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role – Part time( 0.2 EFT)
Location: Office Base is Southampton
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.
1. Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3. 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.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.
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. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
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 via the shared mailbox.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
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BBC Radio Solent is looking for a Journalist Coordinator to join its talented at our studios in Southampton. This role will be a key part of the studio production team overseeing our Saturday Breakfast programme, which is shared with BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Oxford serving a TSA of more than three million people across five counties.
We’re looking with high creative, collaborative and communication skills, with experience in making radio content and audio storytelling. As part of the Saturday breakfast team, you’ll help set the agenda on a Saturday morning and ensure we reflect the lives of all the counties’ residents in our content. You’ll have experience setting up and producing radio programmes, originating stories and creating audio content for digital platforms.
Main Responsibilities
A Journalism Coordinator will assist the production, preparation and output of the programmes, supporting a multiplatform approach. You will work as part of a programme team and the wider station in getting your programme to air and assist with studio technical duties and preparing content for our linear services and BBC Sounds. You’ll undertake a variety of production duties from editing audio and operating broadcast equipment to dealing with callers, contributors and guests. As part of the production team, you will also originate story ideas and audio treatments, set up guests, write scripts and provide research. You’ll also be confident on-air, as you may be required to write and deliver travel bulletins and other programme features.
Are you the right candidate ?
4. You’ll be an adaptable team player, brimming with ideas and creative treatments which will bring stories alive.
5. You’ll have experience with audio storytelling, with an ability to recognise how stories could be told on digital platforms.
6. You’ll understand how BBC Local’s content helps the BBC achieve its strategic aims.
7. You will be keen to bring in new contributors, voices and guest - and really care about making your content reach a wide and diverse audience.
8. You’ll be an excellent communicator, whether it be speaking on air or with callers to the programme.
9. You be aware of the aims of the wider BBC South news operation and be able to spot opportunities for your content when they arise.
This role is one day a week, on a Saturday. The contractual base will be BBC Radio Solent (Southampton).
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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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. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.