Journalist – Daytime Show Producer (Blackburn)

Package Description

Contract: Permanent Full-Time

Location: Blackburn, Lancashire (Office Based)

Band: C

Job Reference: 20164

Salary: £28,000 – £34,000 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.

1. Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

3. 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

Would you like to be part of the daytime programme for BBC Radio Lancashire?

We have an opportunity for a great journalist to join us as the producer on Sharon Hartley’s programme. You’ll be finding and telling great stories from across Lancashire. Whatever the story, we want someone that is creative and can help bring stories to life for our listeners. You’ll be a self-starter, who knows how to find the best stories and guests, but we also want a responsible pair of hands with an understanding of BBC values and editorial guidelines. As well as delivering for radio, you’ll also need to think about digital content, including photos and videos. A knowledge of Lancashire would be an advantage, but we’re mainly after someone with great ideas and experience of on-air programme production.

Main Responsibilities

As a Journalist:

• You’ll be the producer for BBC Radio Lancashire’s daytime programme presented by Sharon Hartley. Working with the presenter, you’ll be mainly producing content for Sharon’s programme.
• You will be pitching stories and guests, helping the production teams to plan shows.
• You’ll also be creating digital content, for BBC online, social media and the BBC Sounds rail.
• You may occasionally be asked to cover other shifts on the rota, which could include early or late shifts, or weekend working

Are you the right candidate?

Essential skills

• A self-starter who knows a good local story and how to find it
• Ability to use technology as required especially experience of the technology for on-air studio programme production.
• Demonstrates a creative approach to story-telling.
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people especially the programme presenter and other members of the programme team.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

• Significant recent experience as a journalist especially programme production, with a good knowledge of production techniques
• Effective planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities
• Demonstrates sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience
• Ability to use technology as required, especially for on-air programme production
• Understands how a team works effectively
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people especially the programme presenter.
• Demonstrates a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands how individual differences can benefit the BBC
• Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output
• The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances
• An understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to 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.

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

Contract: Permanent Full-Time

Location: Blackburn, Lancashire (Office Based)

Band: C

Job Reference: 20164

Salary: £28,000 – £34,000 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.

1. Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

3. 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

Would you like to be part of the daytime programme for BBC Radio Lancashire?

We have an opportunity for a great journalist to join us as the producer on Sharon Hartley’s programme. You’ll be finding and telling great stories from across Lancashire. Whatever the story, we want someone that is creative and can help bring stories to life for our listeners. You’ll be a self-starter, who knows how to find the best stories and guests, but we also want a responsible pair of hands with an understanding of BBC values and editorial guidelines. As well as delivering for radio, you’ll also need to think about digital content, including photos and videos. A knowledge of Lancashire would be an advantage, but we’re mainly after someone with great ideas and experience of on-air programme production.

Main Responsibilities

As a Journalist:

• You’ll be the producer for BBC Radio Lancashire’s daytime programme presented by Sharon Hartley. Working with the presenter, you’ll be mainly producing content for Sharon’s programme.
• You will be pitching stories and guests, helping the production teams to plan shows.
• You’ll also be creating digital content, for BBC online, social media and the BBC Sounds rail.
• You may occasionally be asked to cover other shifts on the rota, which could include early or late shifts, or weekend working

Are you the right candidate?

Essential skills

• A self-starter who knows a good local story and how to find it
• Ability to use technology as required especially experience of the technology for on-air studio programme production.
• Demonstrates a creative approach to story-telling.
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people especially the programme presenter and other members of the programme team.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

• Significant recent experience as a journalist especially programme production, with a good knowledge of production techniques
• Effective planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities
• Demonstrates sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience
• Ability to use technology as required, especially for on-air programme production
• Understands how a team works effectively
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people especially the programme presenter.
• Demonstrates a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands how individual differences can benefit the BBC
• Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output
• The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances
• An understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to 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.

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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