Journalists, The Global Story Podcast

Package Information

Job Reference: 21407

Band: C

Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 + London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: x3 Fixed Term Contracts / Attachments (12 months)

Location: London Broadcasting House, W1A

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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected] . For any general queries, please contact: [email protected] .

We’re recruiting up to three Journalists to join BBC Long Form Audio to work on The Global Story podcast.

The daily pod is being relaunched this spring with a new editorial vision, with a greater emphasis on narrative storytelling. The BBC is investing in the Global Story to become the equivalent of the “front page” of the BBC in North America. The show will provide a deep dive on one big international story every day, giving the audience a deeper understanding of the context and stories that lie behind major global events. In a moment of increasing turmoil worldwide, this show will attempt to keep listeners up to date on how the key issues of our time are playing out on the global stage.

Long Form Audio is the BBC’s home of in-depth story-telling, producing some of the most listened to audio in the world. We produce content for multiple BBC radio networks, including The Briefing Room, Profile, More or Less, Crossing Continents, From Our Own Correspondent and AntiSocial for BBC Radio 4, and Assignment, Witness History, The Inquiry, The Climate Question and People Fixing the World for the BBC World Service. We also produce acclaimed investigative podcasts such as I am Not a Monster, The Coming Storm, World of Secrets and The Lazarus Heist, as well as topical titles such as Newscast, The Global Story, Access All, Americast, Ukrainecast and more.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the founding team this highly ambitious podcast, which will be a core part of the BBC’s offering to the US market.

The successful candidate will be part of the Long Form Audio team, and may also have the opportunity to work across the department’s other strands and projects.

Main Responsibilities

• Journalists on this pod will be responsible for delivering great ideas for stories, guests and audio treatments that give the podcast a strong identity.
• You will be responsible for sourcing and fixing the best contributors for the podcast, making sure the podcast hears from a diverse range of people with the most compelling and relevant stories to tell.
• You’ll mix the audio, weaving through archive, music, on the ground reporting etc to create high quality narrative storytelling in each episode
• You’ll brief the presenter ahead of interviews, developing the structure of interviews and working with them to get the best out of every contributor.
• You’ll often work to tight deadlines, and will need to be an excellent time manager.
• You will need to have a good understanding of the international news agenda and a track record in spotting trends and stories behind the headline.
• You’ll need to understand when to refer up on sensitive editorial issues.
• You’ll communicate effectively with the presenter, SJ, ass ed, and contributors to ensure things run smoothly and are delivered on time and to the highest possible standard
  
  

Are you the right candidate?

We’re looking for creative and passionate journalists, who show bags of initiative and want to make the best audio output. You’ll have strong narrative audio production skills, with an understanding of how to tell stories by mixing together interviews, sound, archive and reporting. You’ll be able to source the very best interviewees with fascinating stories to tell, and know how to find audio that makes their stories even more compelling. You’ll have experience in international news or in narrative storytelling and your finger on the zeitgeist. You’ll be bursting with ideas and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

• The successful candidate will have experience delivering high quality audio storytelling while working with fast turnarounds and tight deadlines. You should be able to edit and mix audio quickly.
• Narrative storytelling experience is desirable, and you will demonstrate an understanding of how to deploy narrative audio production techniques to create content that engages audiences.
• You must be an experienced fixer and be able to demonstrate a creative streak with the ability to make ear-catching audio that has impact.
• A good understanding of the global news agenda is desirable.
• You will demonstrate awareness of and insights into the current podcast market, both inside and outside the BBC.
• You’ll have experience of working with presenters.
  
  

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.

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 .