Audio Social Journalist - Extend

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Contract: Permanent Full-Time
Location: York (Office Based)
Band: C
Job Reference: 19573
Extend: EX2324
Salary: £27,000 - £33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

ABOUT US

Our mission at BBC Radio York is to entertain, inform, and educate our audience here in North Yorkshire, but we aspire to go beyond that. We aim to surprise and delight our listeners every day. The role of an Audio Social Journalist is key to connecting audiences with our content and personalities at BBC Radio York including Georgey Spanswick, Joanita Musisi, and Bek Homer on social platforms.
Connection with our audience is at the heart of our daily output be it across Social Media, Radio or Online, as BBC Radio York is a place people in North Yorkshire calls home. Our shows are all about celebrating where we live, telling great stories and having fun with our audience and now you have the chance to be a part of our team.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are currently looking for a talented and enthusiastic Audio Social Journalist to join our dynamic team based in York, bringing North Yorkshire’s stories alive across all of our platforms. If you possess a passion for crafting high-quality social media content, then we would love to hear from you.

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.

EXTEND ROLE

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.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Journalist, some of the main responsibilities will include the following:

• Day-to-day running of our social media accounts.
• You’ll reversion content to make the most of our Audio to reach online audiences.
• Working alongside our Executive Producer, the wider BBC York team and BBC Yorkshire you’ll aim to drive engagement and growth of referrals from social accounts to BBC products and services, including BBC Sounds.
• Promote radio station activities and your creative film-making skills will help you to turn the biggest local talking points into content for social media and our broadcast output.
• You will be the champion of new social media formats like radio studio visualisation and you will need to be a big believer in teamwork because you’ll often be the person colleagues turn to for help - so you should enjoy helping others to develop their digital skills.
• Using social listening tools to find the issues that matter most to local audiences - and have the creative vision needed to turn them into content audiences love to read, watch and share.
• You’ll know how to turn daily radio and TV content into engaging social format and you’ll be just as happy creating original digital content using your own skills and experience.
• To be a team player with ideas of ways we can improve what we do.