Senior Journalist, WSE Digital

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time

DEPARTMENT: WSE Digital BBC News

LOCATION: London Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 41200 - 52000 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

Youll shape how the worlds most important and captivating stories are told through our social platforms - Facebook Instagram YouTube TikTok and Twitter - and carve routes to in-depth audio listening.

This is an ever-evolving role at the heart of our digital team liaising with audio makers around the BBC as well as independent production companies identifying story lines with digital potential and crafting them into compelling social and online content for global audiences.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

We are a creative editorial content team. Youll be producing content seen and trusted by millions of people globally working with a range of content from breaking news through to documentaries fiction and comedy. At the heart of our team youll have the opportunity to shape our agenda collaborate with some of the best journalists producers and artists in the business and help evolve our visual storytelling.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Identifying digital angles and opportunities within some of the most compelling and captivating stories from around the world.
• Producing writing curating and distributing impactful social posts and videos (Facebook YouTube Instagram TikTok and Twitter) that engage millions of people around the world.
• Ensuring our social and digital feeds are up-to-date and optimised for our global audiences.
• Developing impactful digital storytelling formats across social platforms sharing best practice along the way.
• Navigating complex legal editorial policy and rights issues as they particularly relate to digital storytelling and publishing.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Strong social and online writing skills with the ability to adapt your style to a wide range of complex news and feature stories from breaking political developments and scientific discoveries to remarkable personal experiences and even comedy reflecting the breadth of our programmes.
• Experience of scheduling and optimising digital content on high-profile social media platforms
• An aptitude to spot stories and angles within news and features audio content and develop them into compelling social and online content.
• Ability and confidence to coordinate guide and share best practice with audio teams in digital culture and ways of working that enable them to tell their stories for social and online audiences.
• An analytical mind with knowledge of quantitative social listening and performance tools and a journalistic awareness of how to apply insight into our storytelling.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Skills and creativity working with BBC World Service graphic tools (e.g. Canva Photoshop) to amplify visual impact.
• Knowledge of BBC World Services schedule programming and the way our audio stories are told.
• Experience producing and editing compelling vertical video using Final Cut Pro.
• Some training and digital culture sharing experience.

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.

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