Package Description
Job Reference: 21410
Band: D
Salary: £44,900 - £55,300 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
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Job Introduction
As Senior Journalist Team Manager on the World Service Visual Journalism team, you will supervise and support a team of journalists to create distinct and impactful multimedia visual journalism that improves our audience’s understanding of the news.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about visual information applied to international news, with an instinctive grasp of digital audiences’ needs, and great communication and training skills.
You will report to a News Editor who is the key strategy stakeholder for the UK and World Service Visual Journalism and Text Format teams, and you will help foster collaboration across those teams to enhance creativity and output.
This role sits alongside storytelling innovation teams within the BBC's Digital Development department.
You will line manage three members of staff and ensure the smooth running of our day-to- day visual journalism operation for World Service, maintaining a high level of journalistic and production standards in the output.
You will be responsible for developing and coordinating daily, medium, and long-term visual journalism projects. This includes assigning tasks, editing the work of journalists on your team, and supporting both your team and journalists across the World Service in delivering ambitious interactive and visual projects for the BBC.
In addition to creating original content, your team coordinates, reversions and delivers timely translated graphics for the BBC World Service's 42 language services.
The role involves frequent collaboration with visual and data journalists, graphic designers, and software engineers, while also overseeing major interactive projects and coordinating across World Service departments to ensure timely and impactful delivery to teams.
Aside from the needed technical and organisational skills, the role requires someone with strong interpersonal skills.
Main Responsibilities
1. You will research, write, co-ordinate, manage, edit, and deliver - to tight deadlines - information graphics, maps, interactives, visual explainers, immersive features, data visualisations and other bespoke digital content.
2. Assigning daily and short-term project work to journalists on your team, as well as pitch and collaborate on ambitious visual journalism projects with other BBC departments.
3. Manage, mentor and support World Service visual journalists, overseeing and editing their work.
4. Develop daily, medium- and long-term pitches and commissions with team members, collaborating with other digital teams in the World Service and come up with your own innovative visually-led ideas.
5. Engage and build strong relationships with newsroom stakeholders and story teams in the World Service, through effective communication and working alongside them, when necessary, to enable swift decision-making and turnaround in dynamic news situations.
6. Support, inspire, and train journalists across World Service departments, fostering collaboration and encouraging innovative use of visual journalism storytelling.
7. Use audience insights tools like Telescope, ATI and Chartbeat to measure traffic, engagement, and promotion of Visual Journalism content, liaising with the relevant partners in the Audiences and Growth teams.
8. Represent the Visual Journalism team at editorial meetings and other relevant engagements.
Are you the right candidate?
9. Experience in overseeing multi-disciplinary projects and teams (including journalists, designers, and developers) and deploying resources in the most effective and efficient way to create compelling digital content for news websites and apps.
10. Strong management abilities with the capacity to inspire and guide teams through change towards successful outcomes.
11. Experience of visual storytelling, involving use of digital tools and collaborating with designers and/or developers to create compelling digital content for news websites and apps.
12. You will have excellent writing and text editing skills and experience of writing concise and engaging copy for news websites, with great ideas for how we can reach digital audiences.
13. Excellent visual awareness skills and a demonstrable interest in web technologies and industry trends.
14. You will be a self-starter who is used to working under pressure and team player who is used to delivering projects involving many stakeholders.
15. You will be able to think creatively and imaginatively about news coverage and interested in formats and content produced by our competitor sites.
16. You will be at ease with data sorting and processing tools like Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheets and have a good understanding of the best ways to visualise data.
17. You will have interests in the following areas: mapping, design, open-source investigations, coding or project management.
18. You will have experience of image editing software like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator; data visualisation tools like Flourish, Datawrapper, Tableau; scripting languages like R or Python as well as mapping software like QGIS or Carto.
About the BBC
About the BBC
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