Presenter Exeter, England
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Our reward package:
We’re looking for an exceptional Presenter to help us make a difference to our planet.
As this post is operational, our Presenter will be required to be in the Met Office broadcast studios 3-4 days per week in our Exeter HQ.
Why join us?
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
As our Presenter, your starting salary will be £45150.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to £49890.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.
Your total reward package is potentially worth up to £62,245 annually, which includes basic salary, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.
Who we are:
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Together:
- We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
- We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Find out more about our values - https://bit.ly/3fokaRD
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Job Purpose:
The Presenter is a high-profile role as a primary touch point for users of Met Office and media customer content across broadcast, social media, live news bulletins and live social media broadcasts.
The Presenter sits in the Communications and Engagement function within the People Directorate. The role sits within the Content team and reports into the Senior Presenter.
As our Presenter, the key duties are:
- Be a leading and trusted presenter for our recorded and live presented outputs for the Met Office, commercial broadcast contracts, social media and syndication outputs.
- Combine presentation skills with meteorological knowledge to lead on-screen communication and presentation, proactively and reactively, of complex weather and climate science in a manner that inspires and delivers our message to a variety of audiences, wherever they are, whilst also maintaining the Met Office’s reputation for world leading science and accuracy.
- When required, act as spokesperson to deliver Met Office key messages for media interviews and campaigns.
- Support, attend and sometimes lead the twice-daily editorial meetings and help drive the rapid turnaround of reactive content for social media and syndication. This includes traditional weather bulletins, audio (including podcast), live news and radio bulletins, social media live broadcasts, public speaking events and other media as required.
- Support the Met Office presenter training programme by coaching and developing new presenters and being a role model to ensure a continuous pipeline of key talent is available to the Met Office.
- Act as a super user and drive the development and use of Visual Cortex, the Met Office’s weather graphics package to constantly push and improve our output.
- Help with team resilience by fulfilling other content duties as required such as studio operation, posting to social media channels, writing, simple editing tasks and supporting the Press Office.
Person specification
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities:
- Must be a highly effective verbal communicator with demonstrable experience of presenting material across broadcast media or online/social outlets.
- As an expert by nature on all things weather, must have a good knowledge of meteorology and climate science and a strong interest in the Met Office’s work.
- Always evolving our content, must have knowledge of innovative visualisation tools and techniques, and how these can be leveraged to present weather (and climate) information, warnings and data to a range of audiences across a range of channels.
- As a primary touch point for users and customers and a visible ‘face’ of the Met Office, must be a champion of Met Office values.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities:
We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:
- Experience of presenting on national or regional television or social media.
- Trained meteorologist.
- Knowledge and experience of weather graphics systems.
- Excellent writing skills.
Benefits
- Outstanding Civil Service Pension
- Flexible hours and homeworking
- Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories.
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How to apply:
If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you. Apply below using your CV and Cover Letter/Supporting Statement (which must bullet point how you meet each of the essential criteria).
Closing date 04/06/2023 at 23:59 with interviews taking place on 12/06/2023 and 13/06/2023. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.
If successful, please note we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. Please ask at interview if you would like extra clarity on how often this requirement is likely to be.
How we can help:
If you are considering applying and need assistance to do so, please contact us via [email protected]. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity.
You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident (Guaranteed Interview) Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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