BBC Jersey, Journalist (Social Media)

Package Description

Job Reference: 22808
Band: C :
Salary: From base of grade (£27,300) depending on experience, plus additional annual Channel Islands Weighting allowance of £5,319: https: https://staff.bbc.com/gateway/hr/for-me/channel-islands-weighting/
Contract: Permanent role – Continuing, full time.
Location: Jersey, St Helier

The successful candidate must have Entitled status to live and work in Jersey and there are different requirements to living in the UK. For an explanation of Entitled status please see here: https: https://www.gov.je/LifeEvents/MovingToJersey/LivingInJersey/pages/work.aspx

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected] For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

You are eligible to apply for an internal role if you are either on a BBC Continuing (Permanent) contract, a BBC Fixed Term contract or a worker contract and you have worked continuously for six months.

Job Introduction

We have an opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic social journalist to join our diverse team, bringing alive stories across our social media accounts.

If you possess a passion for crafting high-quality social media content, then we would love to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

As a Journalist, some of the main responsibilities will include the following:

Day-to-day running of our social media accounts (Facebook, X and Instagram), building relationships with online communities.
Working with reporters, you’ll create, curate and promote stories for each social platform and drive engagement and growth of referrals from social accounts to BBC products and services, including BBC Sounds.
Develop a strong working relationship with the Social Media Journalist in Guernsey and wider team in the South West of the UK.

Are you the right candidate?

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves growing audiences, creating digital content and believes in the potential to reach new audiences on social media platforms.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for storytelling and a comprehensive understanding of what resonates with our audience on social media.
You must have a nose for which stories have the potential to translate to digital audiences.
You will understand the BBC Local Social Strategy and have an aptitude for turning great online, video and audio into engaging social media content.
You will be familiar with social listening tools such as Newswhip and how to interpret data. The ability to use platform publishing tools such as Social Flow would be an advantage.
Ideally, you’ll already have film-making skills and know how to shoot and edit your own material with proficiency in editing tools like Final Cut Pro.
Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, is also desirable, although training can be provided.
You don’t need to have a background in journalism or news – you just need to know a great story when you hear it.
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 holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme, and much more.

Please note that the application process will require you to upload a CV and complete the online questionnaire. There is no requirement to attach a covering letter or complete the additional careers hub fields (Personal Statement/Skills/Portfolio sections).

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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 here.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/

Please note; If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory