Senior Journalist, Shoot Edit, News on iPlayer (London)
Package Description
Job Reference: 22336
Band: D
Salary: £43,200 – £53,500 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 12 month attachment/FTC
Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House.
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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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Job Introduction
News on iPlayer is a pioneering multidisciplinary team, charged with creating delivering and curating the best of BBC News on iPlayer. The aim of the team is to serve and grow audiences consuming news on our streaming platform, both on demand and live. We work to tight news deadlines as well as test new formats for SVOD – both of which are crucial – all the while ensuring we improve the existing programme offer on BBC iPlayer.
Streaming audiences are constantly evolving, so we must too! As a Senior Camera Journalist, you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver the best of BBC News on iPlayer, creating a wide variety of content for all audiences.
Main Responsibilities
News for live and on demand audiences requires a data-driven, always on, agile team that is continually developing and adapting to meet audience needs. As a Senior Camera Journalist you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC to showcase BBC News at its best.
BBC iPlayer is a major priority for the BBC and for BBC News. Working between a daily news operation and an agile, iterative development team you will be equally at home operating with colleagues across the BBC on key news coverage; or working as part of a team developing and creating new formats.. Experimentation, piloting and continual improvement are key to success. You should be at home working across simultaneous projects and be prepared for continuous change. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry and you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity. You will be expected to work some evenings and weekends to help us deliver always on coverage on iPlayer.
Are you the right candidate?
The successful candidate should:-
- Be based in London and willing to travel.
- Able to work collaboratively with producers, researchers and on-screen talent across network news teams and Nations and Regions.
- Have long form shoot edit experience and have a flair for doing things differently and working super efficiently.
- Have demonstrable knowledge of BBC News’ tools and techniques to create video (TV and Digital Video) output.
- Understand video tooling and have excellent FCP X skills.
- Be willing to work inside a multi-disciplinary team, in an agile, sprint-led way, in a constantly developing and adapting environment.
- Have demonstrable experience of being a team player and able to articulate to others why change is needed.
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.
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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.
