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Sector: Media and Publishing
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Package Description
Contract: Permanent Full-Time
Location: York (Office Based)
Band: C
Job Reference: 19573
Salary: £27,000 - £33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
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.
Job Introduction
This is a rare opportunity for an ambitious and creative content maker to join the team at BBC Radio York. BBC Radio York is the sound of North Yorkshire. Our towns and cities are vibrant, ambitious and are surrounded by Yorkshire's iconic countryside and places of historical significance.
About Us
Our mission at BBC Radio York is to entertain, inform, and educate our audience here in North Yorkshire, but we aspire to go beyond that. We aim to surprise and delight our listeners every day. The role of an Audio Social Journalist is key to connecting audiences with our content and personalities at BBC Radio York including Georgey Spanswick, Joanita Musisi, and Bek Homer on social platforms.
Connection with our audience is at the heart of our daily output be it across Social Media, Radio or Online, as BBC Radio York is a place people in North Yorkshire call home. Our shows are all about celebrating where we live, telling great stories and having fun with our audience and now you have the chance to be a part of our team.
Who Are We Looking For?
We are currently looking for a talented and enthusiastic Audio Social Journalist to join our dynamic team based in York, bringing North Yorkshire's stories alive across all of our platforms. If you possess a passion for crafting high-quality social media content, then we would love to hear from you.
Main Responsibilities
* Day-to-day running of our social media accounts.
* Reversion content to make the most of our Audio to reach online audiences.
* Working alongside our Executive Producer, the wider BBC York team and BBC Yorkshire to drive engagement and growth of referrals from social accounts to BBC products and services, including BBC Sounds.
* Promote radio station activities and use creative film-making skills to turn the biggest local talking points into content for social media and our broadcast output.
* Champion new social media formats like radio studio visualisation and assist colleagues in developing their digital skills.
* Use social listening tools to find issues that matter most to local audiences and create engaging content from them.
* Turn daily radio and TV content into engaging social formats and create original digital content.
* Be a team player with ideas for improving our output.
Are You the Right Candidate?
This is a great opportunity for someone who loves growing audiences, digital content and Audio and believes in the potential to reach new audiences on social media platforms.
* Experience of creating high-impact content across multiple platforms.
* Enthusiasm for storytelling and understanding how the BBC serves local audiences digitally.
* Ability to identify stories that can translate to digital audiences.
* Account management experience or experience of building social media brands and implementing strategy is ideal.
* Sound understanding of editorial problems and legal concerns relevant to this role.
* Film-making skills; comfortable using software like Final Cut Pro.
* Knowledge of social listening tools and data interpretation; experience with publishing platforms like Social Flow is desirable.
* A great story sense is more important than a background in journalism.
About the BBC
We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours.
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.
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