Contract type: 1 x 6 month Fixed Term / Attachments; 1 x Permanent Full Time; 1 x Permanent Part Time (3 days a week)
Location: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Salary: Up to £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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 in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
Job Introduction
Are you a team player looking to join a new audio team in the BBC where you're skillset will be acknowledge and nurtured? Do you want to move to a new way of working within an ambitious broadcasting station?
A great opportunity to join an ambitious team here at Radio Newcastle. If you love telling local stories that matter to the people that live here in the North East both digitally and on the radio, we want to hear from you.
We’re looking for an experienced, versatile journalist to join the team here at BBC Radio Newcastle. You’ll need to be hands on and with a passion for story telling, with experience in breaking news, a great news reading voice, production and digital journalism skills.
You’ll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience.
We want a driven and passionate person who is keen to reach new audiences through our various platforms. You’ll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multi-platform story under a tight deadline.
The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases – we want original and inclusive ideas that help reflect the diverse audience Newcastle.
Please send an example no longer than 3 minutes of your newsreading/ broadcast voice to sarah.carter@bbc.co.uk when you apply.
Main Responsibilities
The ability to help us tell our stories digitally as well as on the radio.
As a Journalist, you play a big part in putting the shows together both at the planning stage and producing while on air.
You will come up with original story ideas, guests and creative treatments and carry out background research.
There may be shifts which require news reading skills.
You will have experience of responding to breaking news with the ability to summarise complex issues calmly and clearly under significant time pressure. You may be sent to produce an Outside Broadcast so live production experience is critical..
Our producers work with colleagues across BBC News and other parts of the corporation. We expect high quality writing skills and the highest standards of accuracy, impartiality and fair dealing in accordance with the BBC's Editorial values.
Our audience are using us 7 days a week so there’s an expectation of regular weekend work or early shifts.
Are you the right candidate?
Have you got examples of your stories reaching digital audiences?
We need people who match our ambition for the station. The role is demanding and we set high standards. But we also want to have fun. If you’re a journalist with plenty of ideas for brilliant visual storytelling as well as audio then we want to hear from you.
Do you have a strong broadcast voice?
You will work on a wide range of stories with the audience at the heart of it. You must be as skilled in researching, briefing and scripting around an interview, as chatting to a presenter and engaging with our listeners.
Can you deliver creative treatments on air and digitally?
If so we want to hear from you.
About the BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.