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Whether it’s the Olympics, Paralympics, the men's and women's football World Cups, the race for the Premier League and WSL titles, international cricket, Six Nations rugby union, the tennis Grand Slams, or golf's Majors, BBC Sport is at the heart of the world’s major sporting events. Our Sports News, Radio Sport and Digital Sport teams ensure we provide daily coverage and our audiences are served with the stories surrounding the sports as well as providing world-class coverage of the key events themselves.

This is a brilliant opportunity for someone to be BBC Sport’s voice of Newsbeat on Radio 1 and 1Xtra. As the Sports Journalist working for Newsbeat, you will be required to produce & voice packages, compile/present sports bulletins and assist the wider programme team with planning of sports event coverage and journalism. Sometimes you will be asked to report on location from sports events. You will be expected to generate original story ideas as well as treatments of ‘diary’ events. A key priority is to continue to ensure Newsbeat’s content reaches as many people as possible through radio, TV and digital – including social media – making an impact internally and externally, in the most creative way. And you’ll also be expected to work closely with and contribute to other parts of BBC Sport output, and spend time working in other areas of the department.

We’re looking for someone who loves sport and genuinely ‘gets’ what it means to younger audiences and in particular the listeners of Radio 1 and 1Xtra. You’ll need bags of enthusiasm and creativity and a good working knowledge of sport. You’ll need to be able to keep a calm head and make key editorial decisions while under pressure. The successful candidate will need to have experience of working in radio production, an excellent broadcast voice, be able to demonstrate strong editorial judgment and solid journalistic skills. Being able to write scripts quickly, accurately and succinctly is key. Experience of how to find and generate stories is essential. And as a BBC Sport employee you may also be required to work for other outlets we serve, including Radio 5live, TV News and World Service.[

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.

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Band: C
Contract type: 1 x Continuing Contract
Location: Office base is Salford OR Birmingham (with an expectation that the successful candidate will regularly spend time in the other location from where they are based)

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.