Producer Journalist - English Language Teaching 22865
Producer Journalist - English Language Teaching 22865
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Job Reference:22856
Band:C
Salary: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:1 x Permanent
Location:Office Base is London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role.
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to ourcandidate pack
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Job Introduction
BBC Learning English is the awardwinning English language teaching arm of BBC World Service.
The department primarily creates digital content for English language learners on its web app and social media platforms and via podcasts. It also syndicates content to partner networks which includes social media web and to a lesser extent radio and TV. We are now aiming to increase reach to our young underserved audiences by broadening our English language teaching offer to our China partners and Mandarin speaking audiences in general.
Main Responsibilities
- This is an English language teaching role not a news journalism role.
- To support the delivery of BBC Learning Englishs digitalfirst strategy to help audiences learn English.
- To work as part of a team of Mandarinspeaking experienced English language teaching professionals to originate create present and publish English language teaching audio video text and imagebased content for our Chinese English language learners.
- To collaborate with the other departmental teams to ensure all products achieve high levels of valued reach among audiences.
- To participate in and work across other areas of BBC Learning Englishs output as required.
Are you the right person
- Native knowledge of Mandarin (simplified) in all forms
- Excellent working knowledge of English in all forms with firstclass translations skills from one language to the other
- Recent experience in the creation of and delivery of English language teaching materials for a Mandarin audience learning within a school environment and also for Mandarin audiences who selfstudy via different media platforms.
- Enthusiasm and curiosity for and an indepth understanding of digital production and content particularly in relation to English language teaching
- Experience of creating English language teaching content for various Chinese social media platforms
- Strong technical knowledge particularly the use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro for image audio and video editing.
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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 socioeconomic background religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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Please note: If you were to be offered this role the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory
Employment Type
Full-Time
