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Job Introduction

News on iPlayer is a pioneering multidisciplinary team, charged with delivering, creating and curating the best of BBC News on iPlayer. The team is expanding – across the UK – to continue to serve and grow audiences consuming news on our streaming platform, both on demand and live.

As a team based within digital development, piloting and testing new formats for VOD is crucial, while also ensuring we improve the existing programme offer on BBC iPlayer through better curation, iPlayer-first delivery and more. Streaming audiences are constantly evolving, so we must too!

As a Senior Journalist, you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver the best of BBC News on iPlayer – curating, originating and co-ordinating a wide variety of content for all audiences.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Main Responsibilities

News for live and on demand audiences requires a data-driven, always on, agile team that is continually developing and adapting our offer to meet audience needs. As a Senior Journalist on the team you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC to showcase BBC News at its best.

iPlayer is a major priority for the BBC and for BBC News. You will use analytics and audience research confidently to help guide decisions as well as curate, modify and tweak our output day-to-day to deliver the very best content to our on-demand and live audiences.

Working between a daily news operation and an agile, iterative development team you will be equally at home operating with colleagues across the BBC on key news coverage as you would be working with audience panels to develop and create new formats for our platforms.

Experimentation, piloting and continual improvement are key to success. You should be at home working across simultaneous projects and be prepared for continuous change.

We need to build our VOD audiences and grow our live audience on iPlayer. It’s an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry and you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.

Senior Journalists in the team will be expected to work some evenings and weekends to help us deliver always on news coverage on iPlayer.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate should have:

• A thorough understanding of analytics; how audiences consume video on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content on iPlayer.
• Knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content on iPlayer.
• Proven ability to edit video to a high standard, with demonstrable knowledge of BBC News’ tools and techniques to create video (TV and Digital Video) output.
• Understanding of live video tooling, including Silver, OpenMedia and/or tools used for BBC News’ online offer including CPS and Castaway.
• Willingness to work inside a multi-disciplinary team in an agile, sprint-led way, in a constantly developing and adapting environment.
• Demonstrable experience of being a team player and able to articulate to others why change is needed.
• The capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.

About the BBC

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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, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. And we promote flexible working opportunities where operational needs allow.

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Package Description

Band: D

Contract: 12 and 6 month FTC/Attachments

Base: Based in either London (NBH), Glasgow, Cardiff or Salford, with regular travel across the UK.

Job share and part-time applications are welcome for this role. Please include detail of the proposed arrangement in your application.

You are eligible to apply for an internal role if you are either on a BBC Continuing (Permanent) contract, a BBC Fixed Term contract, a casual contract or freelance contract and you have worked continuously for 6 months.

Only internal staff are eligible to apply for the role on an attachment basis. You need to be on a continuing (permanent) or fixed-term contract. You need to have worked for the BBC for more than one year and not have been on an attachment in the last 12 months. You will also need permission from your line manager. You can find out more on our attachments page.

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK