Digital Video and Social Journalist

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Nations, North East and Cumbria Digital Video and Social journalist (BBC Local)

LOCATION:

Newcastle/Middlesbrough/Carlisle office – hybrid working

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 - £33,500 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

We are looking for an experienced multimedia journalist to create social media and digital video content for the BBC in the North East and Cumbria. Our social media platforms are vital in helping us to reach and interact with people who don’t get their local news from broadcast media. This role primarily involves self‑shooting and editing video, repurposing audio and TV content and producing daily posts to promote our stories on our social feeds.

We are looking for someone who is able to come up with a constant supply of original stories and have a nose for identifying potential stories to work on social media. Discovering stories through social listening is a key part of this job, and we are looking for someone who is comfortable sifting through social media and using tools to find stories that will appeal to the BBC’s lightest users.

You’ll also work closely with the wider teams in digital, TV and audio and work with reporters to create explainers, as well as being able to reverse content into engaging social formats.

Please contact social media lead Kristie Kinghorn for more information on the role.

• You’ll be confident at pitching new ideas and creative treatments on the day’s news stories and be able to come up with a constant stream of original stories to self‑shoot and edit for multiple platforms across the North East and Cumbria news patch
• Scripts, produces, and edits video – guiding correspondents and reporters to deliver in a way that works for social media audiences
• Post links, graphics, photos and reels on our social media feeds on a daily basis

• Demonstrates confidence in digital storytelling, with the ability to film and edit content that works well across different digital platforms and to develop creative ways of telling stories
• Uses social listening daily to source stories and has a thorough understanding of the social media market
• Is proficient in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, or other video editing software
• Experience of working in a daily news environment with the ability to work to tight deadlines to turn around content
• A good understanding of media law and the BBC’s editorial guidelines

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

As part of the application process you will be required to create an explainer reel for Instagram between 30 and 90 seconds on this news story about South Tyneside Council paying for first-class train tickets. We are looking to see your creativity in selling the news story on socials in a clear and engaging way. Here is an article on the story -  Please submit your video via Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer with no expiry date on it being viewable

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

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.

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The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.