Journalist (Topic) Health

London - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 27600 - 35000

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment Full-time until end of August 2026.

DEPARTMENT: Global Journalism Health team BBC News

LOCATION: New Broadcasting House London

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 27600 - 35000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience plus London weighting. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Flexibility in terms of the working week is required as the team is operational 7 days per week

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Global Journalism is a key team within BBC World Service Languages. It provides high quality journalism and production making text video and social content that drives reach and engages audiences worldwide. Our core mission is to offer content to language services that enables them to cover and explain the world to their audiences focusing on content that will grow those audiences.

The Global Health team sits within our department and provides text and short video content to World Service language services and BBC News. The aim of the team is to grow audiences by offering a regular stream of SEO optimised and audience informed text and video on the Global Health brief.

We are an enthusiastic ambitious team focused on developing new ways to reach global audiences across BBC World Service languages. There are lots of opportunities to experiment and we are always looking to try out fresh ways of telling stories on social. As well as spotlighting great health content from across BBC outlets we also produce our own original material for language services to use on their platforms.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Research and pitch fresh on-trend ideas which meet the expectations of our audiences and adhere to the BBC editorial guidelines.
Produce your own text and video stories within the Global health brief from ideation to distribution to the BBCs 41 language services
Cover early late or mid shifts across the week.
Stay up to date with the latest editing trends in short video production and be able to use FCP or other editing software
Be aware of social video trends and proactively stay across the news agenda.
Use social media listening and monitoring tools to identify emerging trends in the field of Global Health.
Use monitoring tools to stay across WS language services websites IG TikTok YouTube and FB accounts to spot overperforming stories that can be shared with wider audiences and actively suggest these stories to the team manager.
Write clear explanatory text stories and video scripts and proactively stay up to date with style changes verification processes copyright legal and editorial issues.
Guide colleagues who you may team up with through processes that ensure our journalism is the best it can be in terms of accuracy verification impartiality editorial policy and legal stance.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

You will have a high standard of editorial judgment writing scripting and editing ability based on substantial digital journalism experience with a major media outlet.
You will be on top of trends in Global Health have a sharp eye for spotting stories that will resonate well with WSL audiences across multiple regions.
You will have strong video editing skills with knowledge of FCP and some experience of text writing and editing skills. You will also be well-versed at scripting and editing short video.
You will have some experience in using social listening and monitoring tools for discovering overperforming text and video content within the Global Health remit.
Youll know how to maximise opportunities offered by existing and emerging technologies to their fullest extent and feel comfortable managing resources and technical facilities.
Youll be a strong planner and be able to prioritise activities taking into account relevant issues and factors such as deadlines staffing and resources.
Youll be a journalist with demonstrable commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit us.

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JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: CCONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment Full-time until end of August 2026.DEPARTMENT: Global Journalism Health team BBC NewsLOCATION: New Broadcasting House LondonPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 27600 - 35000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience plus London we...