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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 .
Job purpose
We are looking for a Journalist to help develop social media and digital video content for the BBC in Yorkshire.
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.
We know our social media and digital video strategy is working, and we’re looking for someone to continue to create even more engaging content for social media and the BBC website.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- You'll be using social listening tools like NewsWhip 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 TV content into engaging social formats and you'll be just as happy creating original digital content using your own skills and experience.
- You’ll understand how to post to social platforms – and you’ll be confident knowing what to post and when. You’ll also understand the importance of engagement and how platform-tailored storytelling techniques, such as Reels or Stories, can help us reach and build local audiences on social media.
- You’ll work closely with the wider social media team and main newsrooms in Yorkshire so it’s important you’re a team player with clear ideas of ways we can improve what we do.
Knowledge skills training experience
- The successful candidate will have experience of creating high-impact content across multiple platforms.
- You will have an enthusiasm for storytelling and an understanding how BBC England serves audiences digitally.
- You must have a nose for which stories have the potential to translate to digital audiences.
- You will ideally have account management experience or experience of building social media brands and implementing strategy.
- You must also have a sound understanding of the editorial problems and legal concerns that you may face in this role and most importantly, you should have a thorough understanding of the social media market at a local level.
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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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.
