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Do you love live speech radio? Do you enjoy keeping an eye on what’s going on in Westminster just as much as also knowing which Kardashian is rumoured be having a baby?
We are looking for 1 x 6 month FTC researcher based in Glasgow working on Mornings with Kaye Adams and Stephen Jardine which broadcasts Monday-Friday, 09:00-12:00. This is a flagship programme for BBC Radio Scotland and requires individuals to be bursting with ambition, motivation and enthusiasm to ensure the output is imaginative, ambitious and compelling.
No morning will be the same, and that’s just the morning….one moment you’ll be working to find an alpaca to come into the studio with Kaye to the next when you’ll be preparing a brief for a phone-in with the First Minister.
The joy of the Mornings programme is that we’re not tied to the news agenda – we talk about the things that you and your best friend are talking about. And we do that by booking THE most interesting and entertaining people to speak to our presenters therefore we are looking for someone with a thirst for finding those people and putting them behind a mic.
Main responsibilities
As a Researcher, some of your responsibilities will include:
- Finding, booking and briefing exciting and diverse contributors
- Researching topics , fact checking and writing accurate briefing notes, often under time constraints for the live programme
- Developing and pitching programme/content ideas to producers
- Providing support in the studio for live programmes across this strand – this involves working alongside the studio producer and studio manager to connect to contributors and to ensure the programme runs to time.
- Working on forward planning content – booking big name guests and booking in long term features.
Are you the right candidate
You will have
- Passion for news and topical stories – you’ll consume news across different platforms and keep up to date with current affairs on a daily basis.
- Good knowledge of other speech radio output (particularly our competitors)
- Strong journalistic skills with the ability to think creatively about how to use topical news and contributors
- A desire to apply the BBC's values in accuracy and impartiality in everything you do.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in a content production environment;
- Knowledge of the target audience, their needs and expectations;
- Effective planning and organising skills. Ability to manage several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
- Knowledge of the BBC’s Editorial Standards and how to apply these across our content
- Ability to prioritise a conflicting workload efficiently and to maintain standards of accuracy and attention to detail when working to deadlines or changing priorities.
About the BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours.
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.
Additional information
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. 3. Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
