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For this role / Ar gyfer y swydd yma:
Welsh language skills are not necessary / Nid yw sgiliau yn yr iaith Gymraeg yn angenrheidiol
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Contract type: 1 X 6 month attachment/fixed term contract (maternity cover) & 3 x continuing contracts
Location: Cardiff
NB: We are advertising for 4 positions - a 6-month attachment to cover a period of maternity leave and 3 continuing contracts. Applicants will have the option to select either the attachment/fixed term contract, the continuing contracts, or both on the application questionnaire. (Internal applicants: Please note that you will need to seek approval from your substantive manager before applying for an attachment)
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.
Join a world-leading centre for celebrating and championing science and ideas.
Cardiff is a centre for science programmes on Radio 4 and the World Service as well as global podcasts. We cover all aspects of science, tech, health, engineering, psychology, natural history, space science and more. Our titles include Inside Science, Inside Health, Health Check, Science in Action, All in the Mind, Crowd Science, Curious Cases, Bad People and Unexpected Elements, reaching over 270 million people across the world every week.
Come and join us.
BBC Audio Wales & West of England
This is a new department within BBC Audio bringing together network radio production teams in Cardiff and Bristol. Staff have opportunities for collaborating, developing ideas and their careers and access to a wide range of output across science, factual, rural affairs, food, documentaries, music and drama for all BBC UK Radio networks, the World Service and BBC Sounds.
This role would be based at BBC Central Square, in the heart of the Welsh Capital. The newest BBC building with state of the art studios and outstanding environmental standards.
BBC Audio has around 670 editorial and technical staff who create and deliver more than 100 hours of original audio every day. Our podcasts and radio programmes are heard across the UK and around the world and we work with some of the biggest names in music, entertainment and journalism. We collaborate with world class partners to deliver social value. This is just a selection of the 22,500 programmes we work on every year -
Main Responsibilities
We are looking for someone with energy and ideas who can make creative and compelling radio and podcasts about science. You will have a deep knowledge of at least one aspect of science or health and will have finely tuned journalistic skills. You will be a curious person and enjoy finding and telling impactful stories - in one form or another - and understand what it takes to do it well. You will have the curiosity and tenacity to find the science stories behind the headlines and want to tell them in new and interesting ways.
You should be comfortable with editing software including Sadie and have the confidence to bounce ideas off a team and be enthusiastic about science and health.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
Desirable skills include the following:
- Knowledge of the science, health and tech media landscape both inside and outside the BBC, particularly in the podcasting and social media space
- Science journalism: proven track record of creating high quality, evidence-based, science content
- Research skills and experience, with an ability to quickly identify and disseminate appropriate research literature and potential expert contributors.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Audio recording and editing skills - including experience of creating, managing and delivering multi-track audio projects.
- Successful candidates will be expected to work in Cardiff for a minimum of two days a week.
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.
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 here.
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.
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