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Package Description
Job Reference: 21854
Band: C
Salary: £28,000 - £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Permanent
Location: Office Base is Selkirk. This role is office based, with work out in the field.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
* 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.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
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.
The BBC is fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
BBC Selkirk is the base for BBC Scotland within the borders and we are looking for a motivated and multi-skilled journalist to join our team to help tell the stories of this region.
You'll need to be a self-starter with an eye for a good story and lots of original ideas for news stories and how we tell them. Strong writing skills and an understanding of the needs of different audiences are essential for this role.
Main Responsibilities
* Originating and producing stories for BBC Radio Scotland local Selkirk bulletins. You will also be responsible for compiling and broadcasting these bulletins for both radio and smart speaker.
* Originating, researching and producing stories that may travel to a wider BBC Scotland audience on radio / online / digital or TV.
* Using a range of audiovisual equipment to gather material including interviews on stories for radio, online and TV bulletins where necessary.
* Exercising editorial judgement in developing story ideas and producing fair, accurate, balanced and impartial journalism.
* Excellent communication skills to work within the BBC Selkirk team, but also with colleagues throughout BBC Scotland including online journalists, newsroom reporters, correspondents and editors.
* Delivering work to tight deadlines while maintaining high editorial standards.
* Carry out duties at all time in accordance with the BBC's Health and Safety Policy and Editorial Guidelines.
Are you the right person?
* Have significant experience as a journalist, ideally with a good knowledge of the local area.
* Be a self-starter who knows a good story and how to tell it.
* Have effective planning and organisational skills, including the ability to work to deadlines and react positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
* Demonstrate sound editorial decisions based on a clear understanding of the BBC's distinctive news agenda.
* You will have demonstrable experience of embracing technology, adopting new skills and adapting to the changing demands of a digital working environment.
* News reading experience is encouraged.
* The successful candidate must be able to drive.
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. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care 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 here.
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.
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.
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