Football Correspondent

Package Description

Job Reference: 23527

Band: E

Salary: £57,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Office Base is Salford

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.

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Job Introduction

BBC Sport is now seeking a Correspondent to deliver market-leading, interesting and clever insight and analysis across BBC Sport’s platforms on the biggest football stories.

Main Responsibilities

• Cover the most high-profile stories in football across platforms, providing insight and analysis.
• Written pieces turned around under tight deadlines are likely to be a large part of the job.
• Radio and video appearances on those topics will sometimes come alongside.
• Pieces should be original topics, clever, thought-provoking and set the conversation for audiences.
• There is also scope to work on some longer-term projects, for eg background pieces, profiles.
• Work is most often going to be in response to the biggest football story or talking point of the day.
• Maintain and develop some contacts across the industry so you can explain why and how stories and events are happening.
• Attend some key matches and deliver soon after the game finishes.
• Use developments in social media to deliver our journalism to new audiences.
• Act as a role model encouraging team working, creating a climate of integrity and mentor more junior reporters to help develop their skills in this area.
• Seek ways to increase diversity within our content and ensure that our output reflects the audiences we serve.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate will have a track record of delivering information, insight and analysis of football in an entertaining and thought-provoking way. You must have experience of working in a fast-paced environment, with a strong contacts’ book and be willing to use this network to explain the biggest issues in football.

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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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.

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