Journalism Coordinator : Part Time

  • Permanent, Part-time: 7 hours per week Saturday & Sunday 0630-1000

DEPARTMENT: BBC Radio Sussex
LOCATION: Brighton
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,800 - £27,667 per annum pro rata depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Each Saturday and Sunday morning, our Weekend Breakfast Show provides the essential start to the weekend for listeners across the South East. This is an opportunity to join the team producing our Breakfast Show broadcast on BBC Radio Sussex, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Kent. We’re looking for someone who’s full of ideas and thrives in a fast-paced environment to join our production team.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The team producing weekend breakfast thrives on big ideas and creativity. We love making great radio and we’re never phased by an alarm clock. If that sounds like you, this could be the perfect role.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

  • You’ll help producers in preparing and outputting our four-hour weekend breakfast shows.
  • Where possible, we provide bespoke content for our three radio services, so you’ll need a careful eye for detail.
  • You will support a multiplatform approach to our local content.
  • The role has some technical responsibilities, including editing audio and dealing with live sources as the show is transmitted, as well as speaking to callers.
  • You will be preparing content for our social media channels and BBC Sounds.
  • As part of the production team, you will also come up with ideas for stories and treatments, set up guests, write scripts and provide research background.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Inclusivity, respect and teamwork are important to us. You’ll need to demonstrate these values as well as having a passion to serve local audiences. You will have the ability to work flexibly and efficiently under pressure, to tight deadlines and in a constantly changing live studio environment, with first rate communication skills. You’ll know what producers and presenters need to create the best possible content in a creative way. You will be excited about BBC Local’s goals and the future of audio.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

  • Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team;
  • Be able to come up with creative treatments to enable brilliant storytelling;
  • Calm under pressure;
  • An understanding of the target audience for BBC local radio;
  • Experience of how to make the most of our social media and digital opportunities.

Benefits

  • Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
  • Excellent career and professional development.
  • Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
  • A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual\'s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

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