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Journalist, Saturday Breakfast, BBC Southampton - EXTEND
Journalism
Permanent - Part Time
Southampton, GB, S01 0XR
Job Closing Date: 18/02/25
THE ROLE
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference: 21181
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £32,533 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
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.
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. You 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.
BBC Radio Solent is looking for a journalist – an audio content producer – to join its talented team of broadcast journalists at our studios in Southampton. This role will be studio producing our Saturday Breakfast programme, which serves a TSA of more than three million people across five counties.
Main Responsibilities
Creativity and storytelling are essential core skills. In this role you will engage the audience across the region with compelling stories, high production values and creative flair. You will consistently achieve high journalistic standards and uphold the BBC Editorial Guidelines.
Are you the right candidate?
* You’ll be a team player with ideas on news stories to share with the residents of the South.
* You’ll have the ability to share those stories in a variety of ways, not just on the radio, but on digital platforms as well.
* You’ll understand how to tell a story in a way in which our listeners can engage with it.
* You’ll know how the content you produce helps BBC Local achieve its target reach.
* You’ll know how to add value to an item using social media.
* You will be keen to bring in new contributors and care about making your content reach a wide and diverse audience.
* You will work alongside the wider BBC South news operation, requiring adaptability and teamwork.
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 and will give priority consideration ahead of other applicants.
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.
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 satisfactory performance.
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