Data Journalist, Birmingham
Data Journalist, Birmingham
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£ 28000 - 34000
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Nations BBC Local Data Unit (Central Team)
LOCATION: Birmingham - 3 days in office; some travel to other BBC sites may be required on occasion
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 28000 - 34000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join BBC Locals Data Team (the England Data Unit) to deliver high-impact data-led stories. With experience in storytelling youll have technical expertise in sourcing harvesting and cleaning data at scale. Youll support the delivery of journalism across England working in partnership with regional and Verify teams across the BBC. Youll also be excited about the possibilities that AI may offer and eager to embrace new ways of working.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Youll be part of the Central Team which provides a range of multi-platform central services for local and regional teams across the last two years the England Data Unit has delivered key insights for local journalism worked with and supported our Regional Investigations teams and worked collaboratively with BBC News and network TV and radio colleagues. The team is focused on high-impact storytelling using data to help provide insight into the world around us about things that matter to our audiences.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Confident in fielding statistical queries at pace and handling cleaning and building datasets
- The ability to work on multiple stories at once and handling shifting priorities across BBC Locals digital and linear services.
- Proven delivery of stories to multiple platforms with an awareness of the different audience needs of individual platforms
- To generate original ideas for impactful data-driven investigations that will resonate with regional audiences and the wider BBC.
- Use off-the-shelf data visualisation tools such as Flourish and Datawrapper to explain complex datasets.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- A good understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.
- A strong grasp of how to clean and query data using spreadsheet software such as Excel and Google Sheets and experience of using visualisation tools such as Datawrapper and Flourish (including spatial data).
- Experience negotiating with public officials for data and open records and sound understanding of how to gather information via Freedom of Information requests.
- Experience of writing for the web and using content management systems to make compelling content.
- You will be passionate about local news and have an understanding of BBC Local and the BBC teams across England. You will have experience in creating graphics telling visual stories online and/or for TV and be confident in telling stories across all of our platforms.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Knowledge of programming languages used by data journalists such as Python and R.
- A knowledge of basic HTML and CSS and an understanding of web page design.
- Knowledge of web scraping tools.
- Knowledge and experience of bespoke data visualization and Photoshop.
- Experience in content production and broadcasting: audio reporting video/TV reporting production and online journalism.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
For more information please contact ED Barlow : Lead for Data Formats and Innovation BBC Local and Jonathan Fagg : Senior Data Journalist
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Employment Type
Full-Time
