Data Visualisation Designer Reporter

Birmingham - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 34000 - 44850

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-Time

DEPARTMENT: BBC News Design

LOCATION: Birmingham - although the role is hybrid regular working at BBC Birmingham office will be required

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 34000 - 44850 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.

JOB PURPOSE

You will be a key member of a creative supportive team of world-class data designers and journalists working together in a fast-paced and inspiring newsroom. Youll have the freedom to create sharp on-the-day data designs alongside the time and space to explore more ambitious and challenging data led storytelling. Youll continually grow and develop your skills learning from the very best in the field with your work reaching our huge global audiences.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Youll be one of BBC News specialist data designer / reporters working primarily with the BBCs forensic journalism team BBC Verify.

You will explore creative ways to help our audiences understand the data behind key stories collaborating with award-winning data journalists data scientists reporters infographic designers product designers and web developers.

Working for one of the biggest most trusted news organisations in the world free from commercial interests your work will appear across platforms and reach our audiences in the UK and across the globe.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITES AND IMPACT

Create best-in-class static and interactive data visualisations and mapping across platforms.
Be comfortable working in an exciting fast-paced news environment usually within tight timeframes managing competing demands.
Be as much a journalist as a designer take a keen interest in the news agenda and generate ideas for new data stories and investigations.
Have strong communication skills able to communicate ideas and design decisions to others
Possess sound problem-solving techniques and the ability to explore creative solutions to design and storytelling problems.
Follow a human-centred approach be the champion of the audience constantly interrogating user data to understand how people experience our content and how we can continue to improve this experience.
Collaborate effectively with others ensuring you maintain excellent relationships throughout whilst advocating for the user design frameworks and our core design values.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE KEY CRITERIA

Expertise in data visualisation and visual storytelling- sourcing and processing datasets and an understanding of techniques totell stories with data clearly and effectively
Technical ability to design data visualizations using graphics software programming languages and GIS software. QGIS Flourish and Rskills would be desirable.
Experienceworking in multi-disciplinary teams including for example journalists designersproject managers anddevelopers.
Experience of working to a range of timeframes from high pressure tight deadlines to working on longer term projects investigating data exploring design solutions testing and and delivering final design solutions.
Demonstrableinterest innews current affairs and storytelling including generating new ideas.

Required Experience:

JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: CCONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-TimeDEPARTMENT: BBC News DesignLOCATION: Birmingham - although the role is hybrid regular working at BBC Birmingham office will be requiredPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 34000 - 44850 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected sal...