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Are you passionate about coming up with original stories and attracting new audiences to the BBC? Are you determined to tell stories in new, creative ways across different platforms? Are you excited about the opportunities of working across Online, TV and Radio? If so, then this Journalist role is the job for you. BBC South East is focussed on representing communities across our region and you’ll help us deliver for our audiences wherever they are. You’ll be working across Online, TV and Radio. You’ll be writing stories for the BBC News website, helping to curate our social media platforms, helping to put together TV bulletins and planning next day and longer-term multiplatform features and strands. And you’ll be part of an ambitious, driven team who’ll be ready to start helping to tell stories across Online, TV and Radio from day one.

You’ll be working on a range of output across Online, TV and Radio. You’ll be researching, writing, editing and working with our team to tight deadlines. You’ll have a solid news judgement and will understand the importance of social for telling stories and newsgathering. You’ll help us to find stories, fact-check stories and have an ability to look beyond the press release. You’ll help us with our ambition to reach the widest possible audience with our stories by ensuring they are told on all our platforms. There will be a thorough training programme and you’ll be a champion for BBC News’ need for due impartiality and accuracy.

The ideal candidate will be a conscientious self-starter who’ll add energy, ideas and a flair for story-telling. You’ll have previous experience as a journalist in Online, TV and/or Radio and will have first-class news judgement. You’ll have experience of working in news and be able to demonstrate a track record of developing your own stories. You’ll have a knowledge of using social media as both a broadcast medium to tell compelling stories and as a news-gathering tool. You’ll have worked in a busy newsroom. You’ll be able to work effectively as part of a team often to tight deadlines, and build trust and rapport with colleagues across BBC South East and beyond.

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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.

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Band: C
Contract type: Fixed Term 12 Months
Location: Tunbridge wells

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (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.