Journalist (Weekend Newsreader), BBC Radio London - EXTEND

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Package Description

Extend: EX2324

Job Reference: 22983

Band: C

Salary: £27,300 - £32,533 + London weighting £5,319 pro rated depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role - Part-Time (14 hours). The hours will fall on a Saturday and Sunday 5am - 1pm.

Location: Office Base is London.

• 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 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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Extend

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You're broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

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Job Introduction

BBC Radio London has a vacancy for a talented newsreader to join our weekend team. We are looking for an instinctive journalist who will thrive in the busiest news patch in the country, and who has the voice and writing skills to cut through and make an impact in the capital city.

Main Responsibilities

This is a weekend newsreader role and the successful candidate will be the voice of news on Radio London on a Saturday and Sunday.

You will also:

• Need to be able to use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards.
• Be required to present the content on radio, TV or online. This might be live or recorded.
• Need to be able to exercise editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• Be required to undertake pre- and post-production and studio work, live and pre-recorded.
• Need to liaise closely with other team members and with other departments in the BBC, to ensure that output material is shared, duplication is avoided, and best practice is upheld.
• Take the lead within a team setting or on delivering a specific piece of journalism or project as appropriate.
• Tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
• Need to prioritise and plan activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources available.
• Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.

Are you the right candidate?

• Significant experience as an on air newsreader with a strong broadcast voice.
• Excellent bulletin writing skills.
• Sound editorial judgement.
• Confident working knowledge of media law and BBC editorial guidelines.
• Significant knowledge of London news and market.
• An understanding of the core purpose of BBC Local Radio and the audience we serve.
• Be organised and meticulous.
• Ability to work under pressure and understand the changing demands of our audience.

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.

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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.