Journalism Assistant - Belfast

Package Description

Job Reference: 13518
Band: A
Salary: Up to £21,368 - £23,149 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is Belfast
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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction

BBC News Northern Ireland are looking for Journalism Assistants on varying contracts to work in its award winning News & Current Affairs department.

This is an incredible opportunity for candidates with an interest in news and current affairs to work across radio and tv output and take their first steps into a career in journalism. Journalism Assistant’s work alongside our production teams on our radio news programmes Good Morning Ulster, Talkback and Evening Extra as well as our TV news bulletin BBC Newsline.

If you have a passion for journalism, storytelling and work well as part of a team then this entry level role could be for you. Full training is provided on the job.

Find out more about the role here.

Main Responsibilities

• Assist the production teams on our radio programmes – Good Morning Ulster, Talkback and Evening Extra.
• Look after guests and contributors who are visiting the newsroom.
• Operate the autocue for the 1330 and 183- TV Newsline bulletins.
• Edit audio, book guests and work on news stories.
• To come up with ideas in programme meetings.
• Carry out research for the BBC News NI Digital news teams.

Are you the right candidate?

• You will have a passion for journalism and news in Northern Ireland.
• You will have experience of working effectively under pressure, whilst assessing and prioritising tasks.
• You’ll be good with people and make visitors to the newsroom feel welcome.
• You’ll enjoy working as past of a larger creative team.

About the BBC

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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