Job Introduction
The North East of Scotland is a diverse part of Scotland providing a busy, stimulating news patch. The BBC is looking for a Senior Journalist (Reporter) to work in Aberdeen covering this area to further broaden the range of stories we tell.
You’ll be able to deliver expert, authoritative and creative news coverage as part of a small team covering a large geographical area.
Main Responsibilities
You’ll be required to report for multi-platform outlets prioritising our growing digital audience as well as our established radio and TV listeners and viewers. You will be comfortable working alone or as part of a team in a variety of roles. The job will involve providing high quality material for our online and social media services as well as TV and radio package making, live on-air reporting, writing for radio news bulletins and digital on demand audio bulletins.
You will be able to demonstrate in depth knowledge of the news agenda of the North East, as well as having good contacts or the ability to develop them.
The successful candidate will have clear ideas of how digital news services can help us attract and develop new audiences. You will also have lots of story ideas and an ability to identify the under-reported stories affecting people and communities in the area . You will have an understanding of the North East institutions, issues and its diverse range of communities.
You will have in-depth knowledge of the Scottish news agenda and of Scotland's politics and how they might be reflected in the North East.
Are you the right candidate?
The job will require a highly developed ability to tell stories in a way that works on digital platforms as well as significant experience of on-air broadcasting, the use of a range of broadcasting equipment for TV, radio and in-the-field live broadcasting.
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.
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Package Description
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 (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.