Journalist

Job Package

Band: D

Salary : £39,800 - £45,000 per annum dependent on relevant skills and experience

Contract type: Two-year fixed term contract / attachment

Location: Swindon

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.

Job Purpose

Do you live and breathe politics in Wiltshire? Can you explain the difference between a borough or a parish? Or decipher and bundle of council papers and find that golden nugget of a story? Or be able to tell our audiences how decisions in County Hall directly link to their lives? If so, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

We have a hugely exciting role as politics reporter in Wiltshire. You’ll tell stories across platforms for the BBC in Wiltshire with the opportunity for those stories to make a national impact. You’ll bring those stories to life in a compelling, engaging way on the BBC News website and on our social channels, on BBC Radio Wiltshire and on TV on Points West and Politics West.

Your stories will make politics simple and easy to understand. You’ll be as comfortable explaining budgets as talking about potholes. You’ll be able to explain the good things politicians do as well as holding them to account if it goes wrong.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

This is a rare opportunity to stamp your name on a key position in our newsroom. If you have an in-depth knowledge of politics and a knack for how to tell those in a multimedia environment we want to hear from you!

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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