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BBC Radio Cornwall is the most listened to station in our market, with a strong following on social media. Our audience are passionate about where we live and the people who live here. Cornwall has a strong sense of identity, history, culture and its own language.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced newsreader and producer who can connect with our listeners and adapt to working on air and on our digital platforms to tell the real story of Cornwall. You will be able to make stories come alive through your writing, presentation and social media skills. You will be part of a wider news team finding and creating great local content.

The successful candidate will carry out the following duties;

• Present conversational and attention grabbing news bulletins for radio and smart speakers.
• Find and deliver stories that are relevant and engaging for audiences across radio, on demand audio and social media.
• Exercise editorial and legal judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• Be organised, able to plan original ideas as well
• Work to briefs and regular deadlines.

To undertake this role successfully, you will need to demonstrate the following key criteria;

• Most importantly for this role, you will have a great voice and experience of live and on demand news reading.
• Excellent writing and storytelling skills.
• You will have experience of finding high impact content and sharing it with a wide audience.
• You will be comfortable working as part of a team and on own initiative.
• You will demonstrate knowledge of the Cornwall area and its stories.

We particularly want to ensure that we reflect the people of Cornwall and the audiences we serve, and we encourage applications from underrepresented groups for this role.

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 in the document attached below.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: C
Contract type: Fixed Term - August 2023
Location: Cornwall/Truro

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.