JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: Journalist Band D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent / Part-time (14 hours per week)

DEPARTMENT: BBC South News

LOCATION: Southampton

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 - £33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As the weekend newsreader you will be preparing and reading bulletins for BBC Radio Solent, and ensuring our smartspeaker bulletins are delivered.

Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight is an extremely busy news patch so you’ll be used to reacting to breaking stories and be able to work with our digital team to ensure your content can reach a wider audience.

As an experienced news reader a great voice is essential, as is a passion and a natural flair for storytelling.

• You’ll have good local knowledge or demonstrate an ability to get up to speed very quickly.
• You’ll know how to create engaging and imaginative bulletins with an appropriate balance of stories and treatments.
• You’ll know how to get the best out of interviews and know how to write the engaging top lines.
• Your bulletins will include a range of diverse opinions and perspectives while meeting high journalistic standards and observing the BBC Editorial Guidelines.
• You’ll have a can-do attitude and a knack for being able to deliver the day’s news in an accessible and conversational way.
  
  

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

News readers are the voice of our local services – passionate broadcasters and brilliant storytellers that inspire and engage our communities.

We are looking for talented people to be at the heart of our relationship with our local audiences.

BBC Local is the family of services we offer across local communities in England, including radio, online, social media and TV.

With famous brands and new platforms, we provide a rich mix of content and programming from news to entertainment

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Read weekend news bulletins.
• Produce news stories for your bulletins and bulletins the following day
• React to and chase breaking news at the weekend
• Help set up stories for programmes
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong Broadcasting voice
• Excellent Writing skills across a range of formats
• Media Law
• Skilled in Audio editing
• Ability to create engaging written content for online platforms
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• Writing for TV bulletins
• TV Production
• Radio Pkge making
  
  

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.

Disclaimer

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.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

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.