Journalism Coordinator : Part Time

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: B

Contract Type: Permanent, Part-time: 7 hours per week Saturday & Sunday

DEPARTMENT: BBC Radio Sussex

LOCATION: Brighton

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,800 - £27,667 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Each Saturday and Sunday morning, our Weekend Breakfast Show provides the essential start to the weekend for listeners across the South East. This is an opportunity to join the team producing our Breakfast Show broadcast on BBC Radio Sussex, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Kent. We’re looking for someone who’s full of ideas and thrives in a fast‑paced environment to join our production team.

The team producing weekend breakfast thrives on big ideas and creativity. We love making great radio and we’re never phased by an alarm clock. If that sounds like you, this could be the perfect role.

• You’ll help producers in preparing and outputting our four‑hour weekend breakfast shows.
• Where possible, we provide bespoke content for our three radio services, so you’ll need a careful eye for detail.
• You will support a multiplatform approach to our local content.
• The role has some technical responsibilities, including editing audio and dealing with live sources as the show is transmitted, as well as speaking to callers.
• You will be preparing content for our social media channels and BBC Sounds.
• As part of the production team, you will also come up with ideas for stories and treatments, set up guests, write scripts and provide research background.

Inclusivity, respect and teamwork are important to us. You’ll need to demonstrate these values as well as having a passion to serve local audiences. You will have the ability to work flexibly and efficiently under pressure, to tight deadlines and in a constantly changing live studio environment, with first‑rate communication skills. You’ll know what producers and presenters need to create the best possible content in a creative way.

You will be excited about BBC Local’s goals and the future of audio.

• Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team;
• Be able to come up with creative treatments to enable brilliant storytelling;
• Calm under pressure;
• An understanding of the target audience for BBC local radio;
• Experience of how to make the most of our social media and digital opportunities.

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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Redeployment

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