Senior Journalist Team Manager (News Editor) - Salford

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference:21138
Band:D
Salary: £42,500 - £54,750 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent- Full time role
Location: Office Base is Salford

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.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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JOB INTRODUCTION

This is an opportunity to lead a team of ambitious local journalists covering stories on all platforms.Greater Manchester is an amazing patch which covers lots of high profile stories. People are passionate about where they live and it’s an area rich with diverse communities.
We pride ourselves on finding and producing brilliant content with strong local journalism, that’s relevant to the lives of ordinary working people throughout the area. You will help to set the tone for that journalism, making sure they create impact across all our platforms including content sharing with BBC networks.
You’ll think digitally and understanding our diverse and harder to reach audiences.
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, creative team leader with great news and people skills to join our management team. You’ll need to be hands-on and drive our news strategy across more than one platform. Most of all you’ll love connecting with audiences.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE?

• Leadership is essential. We are looking for someone who is passionate about local news, who can turn an exciting vision into reality and be a brilliant people manager.
• You’ll be able to manage your time effectively and bring creative treatments to stories, inspiring confidence in others to manage their own work and responsibilities within the output.
• You should be able to demonstrate your strategic thinking and have knowledge of digital-first and social media strategies. In addition, you should be able to evidence your experience delivering editorial projects with impact.
• You’ll want to be part of a collaborative multiplatform team where we celebrate trying to do things differently and where we regularly innovate!
• You’ll inspire creativity and be familiar with leading people through change.

ABOUT THE BBC

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

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will lead and line-manage the multiplatform Local Story Team on a day-to-day basis.
• Editorial oversight of the audio news bulletins and production of news content for radio.
• Have some editorial oversight of the local digital index.
• Collaborate with the North West story hub for planning, commissioning and the delivery of stories for digital, radio and TV.
• Lead, support and develop reporters and newsreaders.
• Sub and publish some online content.
• You’ll shape big impact journalism and ensure staff think creatively about what we do and story treatments. You’ll also ensure our bulletins are of the highest order with the potential to read some yourself.