Package Description
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference: 22535
Band: D
Salary: £39,800 - £46,000 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 - Full time
Location: Office Base is Birmingham - 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. 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 more.
Job Introduction
BBC Local is at the heart of domestic sport coverage in England. Our digital sports journalists ensure we provide daily coverage of sports news stories and live fixtures that matter, ensuring our audiences get to know what's happening at their clubs and how the teams they support are getting on.
We have an amazing opportunity for someone to bring all of the excitement, tension, glory and pain of the English Football League to our website on live pages covering the Championship. This is your chance to put your passion for football in front of millions of readers, as well as shape our coverage of county cricket, domestic rugby union, rugby league, and much more.
Main Responsibilities
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.
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This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in helping make the digital sport coverage in BBC Local come to life. As part of BBC Local's Central Editorial Team, this role will involve sub-editing breaking sports news stories and features and helping run our portfolio of live text sport coverage, most notably across the EFL.
You will also be required to help draw up plans to make sure all our events are covered and ensure that staff are briefed and supported. As this is a sport job, there will be plenty of evening and weekend shifts to help cover the action.
Are you the right candidate?
We're looking for someone who is passionate about sport, but who isn't just interested in the big national and international events. Domestic sport is what we do, covering clubs at all the various levels of the professional game. The successful candidate will have substantial experience of working as a sub-editor in digital or text sport coverage and be able to spot a good story and help develop it. Some experience of running live text pages is also desirable but not essential.
The successful candidate must be a team player and excellent communicator too - we work alongside colleagues based all over England and beyond daily to produce our content, including those in BBC Local's network of regional centres and local radio stations. We also collaborate closely with BBC Sport, both in Salford and the nations.
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.
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