Senior Producer BBC News - Los Angeles 22357
Senior Producer BBC News - Los Angeles 22357
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$ 90000 - 105000
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Job Reference:22357
Internal job title:Senior Journalist
Band: D
Salary range:$90000 $105000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: At will contract the anticipated contract length is two years.
Location: Office Base is Los Angeles
This is a local hire position and eligible candidates must be able to live and work in the US (US citizenship Green Card or work authorisation).
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.
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Job Introduction
Its an exciting time to be part of BBC News as we grow in North America. Our independent impartial and unrivalled global journalism has made us one of the most trusted news brands in the US where we reach tens of millions of people each week across digital TV and radio.
The BBC is looking for a Senior Los Angeles producer to work with our news team in LA. Were looking for a terrific journalist with strong editorial and field experience. You will have a nose for a story with excellent storytelling skills and first rate TV Digital and Radio production skills.
Main Responsibilities
The Senior Producer works closely with the BBCs LA Correspondent to provide news content across the BBCs TV Radio digital channels and platforms bringing the biggest US stories to our international and UK audiences. You will find and research original stories and news lines work on pre planned news events and will be deployed to breaking news stories working both in the field and in the bureau.
The BBC News LA team cover stories in the Western US but are also deployed across the country when needed.
Please note that this is not a Reporter position.
Are you the right candidate
- Extensive demonstrable experience of producing original high impact high quality journalism in English for television radio digital video and online. Including excellent radio package editing skills.
- Excellent proven editorial judgement and an authoritative grasp of your patch US affairs in general and key issues of the day as well as the ability to translate them into accessible journalism
- The ability to work calmly collaboratively and safely in difficult conditions and to lead teams in hostile environments.
- Extensive demonstrable and recent experience of Broadcast field production during busy breaking stories confident at juggling the demands of the story working under pressure hitting tight deadlines and communicating effectively with colleagues and other news gathering teams in the field.
- The necessary technical knowledge and skills for example editing packages for radio. Youll also have an aptitude and enthusiasm to learn and extend your creative and technical skills as a producer.
- Ability and willingness to travel anywhere in the US often at short notice and being able to work flexibly is essential.
- A thorough understanding of the BBCs global and domestic output requirements its platforms audiences and ambitions.
- To be fully across new and constantly changing technology used to feed material back to base and go live from the field
- A thorough understanding of the requirements of digital output including social media and demonstrable experience of delivering for them.
- Ability to adapt to changing audience habits and new formats and a willingness to undergo training to keep abreast of new technologies
- This is a local hire position and eligible candidates must be able to live and work in the US (US citizenship Green Card or existing work authorization)
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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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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
