Senior Journalist Reporter

Package Description

Job Reference: (013769)

Band: D

Salary: £37,845 – £46,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

This role is part time 0.4 FTE (14 hour per week, pro rata salary £15,138 – £18,400 per annum)

Contract type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Norfolk

Job Introduction

BBC Radio Norfolk has an exciting opportunity for a political reporter two days a week (as part of a job share). We are looking for a creative and tenacious reporter to hold those in power to account and to explain what is happening to our audience in the most engaging way.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract for a Senior Broadcast Journalist to join our news team in an election year.

Role Responsibility

The Politics Reporter needs to work right across the radio station, delivering digital content, live and recorded content for radio programmes and news bulletins as well as providing content for online and TV. 

You must be a key contributor to the daily and weekly news planning process. You will have a passion for politics and be familiar with the national political agenda, keep tabs on all of our local MPs, as well as keeping across the work of county, district and parish councils. You will also be expected to deliver your own original journalism and deal with complex editorial and legal questions.

Primarily working in the newsroom in Norwich, you’ll also be expected to work alongside television colleagues producing content for the weekly “Sunday Politics”. This role requires flexibility to make sure we’re there when the stories happen which may include evenings and occasionally weekends.

Are you the right candidate?

As a political reporter you’ll be across all the relevant social media feeds and relish finding nuggets by studying agendas and minutes of council meetings. You’ll be well across the national and local political agendas both current and what’s coming up, you’ll know all the MPs in the county and make sure they have your number in their phones. You’ll have an instinct for which stories matter to our listeners’ lives and make sure they hear it from us first.

You need to be a self-starter with your finger on the pulse. You’ll need to be able to explain complex situations in a simple and captivating way. You will have the confidence to hold those in power to account and the attention to detail to make sure they don’t get off the hook.

You should be passionate about politics and be the go-to person with any political queries from the team including colleagues in television and online. You’ll be very familiar with the BBC’s editorial guidelines and values and passionate about upholding them.

To find out more about the role and BBC Radio Norfolk you can call the News Editor Sophie Price on 01603 284366.

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.

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.

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. 

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps – both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/.

Package Description

Job Reference: (013769)

Band: D

Salary: £37,845 – £46,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

This role is part time 0.4 FTE (14 hour per week, pro rata salary £15,138 – £18,400 per annum)

Contract type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Norfolk

Job Introduction

BBC Radio Norfolk has an exciting opportunity for a political reporter two days a week (as part of a job share). We are looking for a creative and tenacious reporter to hold those in power to account and to explain what is happening to our audience in the most engaging way.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract for a Senior Broadcast Journalist to join our news team in an election year.

Role Responsibility

The Politics Reporter needs to work right across the radio station, delivering digital content, live and recorded content for radio programmes and news bulletins as well as providing content for online and TV. 

You must be a key contributor to the daily and weekly news planning process. You will have a passion for politics and be familiar with the national political agenda, keep tabs on all of our local MPs, as well as keeping across the work of county, district and parish councils. You will also be expected to deliver your own original journalism and deal with complex editorial and legal questions.

Primarily working in the newsroom in Norwich, you’ll also be expected to work alongside television colleagues producing content for the weekly “Sunday Politics”. This role requires flexibility to make sure we’re there when the stories happen which may include evenings and occasionally weekends.

Are you the right candidate?

As a political reporter you’ll be across all the relevant social media feeds and relish finding nuggets by studying agendas and minutes of council meetings. You’ll be well across the national and local political agendas both current and what’s coming up, you’ll know all the MPs in the county and make sure they have your number in their phones. You’ll have an instinct for which stories matter to our listeners’ lives and make sure they hear it from us first.

You need to be a self-starter with your finger on the pulse. You’ll need to be able to explain complex situations in a simple and captivating way. You will have the confidence to hold those in power to account and the attention to detail to make sure they don’t get off the hook.

You should be passionate about politics and be the go-to person with any political queries from the team including colleagues in television and online. You’ll be very familiar with the BBC’s editorial guidelines and values and passionate about upholding them.

To find out more about the role and BBC Radio Norfolk you can call the News Editor Sophie Price on 01603 284366.

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.

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.

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. 

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps – both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/.

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