Producer, Religion & Ethics (BBC Audio North)
BBC
Date: 8 hours ago
City: Salford, England
Contract type: Full time
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Religion & Ethics, BBC Audio North
LOCATION: Dock House, MediaCityUK, Salford. Hybrid (3-days per week on-site).
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £40,200 – £52,200 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Audio North produces a wide variety of programmes and content spanning religious and consumer journalism, documentaries, worship, poetry, classical and pop music.
Based at MediaCity UK in Salford, the department produces content for Radios 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 6 Music and the World Service. Our programmes and podcasts include Sunday, Thought For The Day, Moral Maze, Beyond Belief, Sunday Worship, The Daily Service,d Prayer For The Day, You and Yours, Sliced Bread, Toast as well as The Verb and Saturday Breakfast for Radio 3 and Heart and Soul for World Service.
You can find out more about BBC Audio here.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC Religion & Ethics produces over 500 hours of content ever year, covering Factual, Worship and Music programmes. You will work on titles such as Sunday, Radio 4’s flagship religious news magazine show; Thought For The Day, a religious perspective on current events in the Today programme; Beyond Belief, the award winning and definitive religious discussion programme; Heart and Soul for the World Service; and the highly regarded ethical interrogation programme, the Moral Maze.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Religion & Ethics, BBC Audio North
LOCATION: Dock House, MediaCityUK, Salford. Hybrid (3-days per week on-site).
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £40,200 – £52,200 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Audio North produces a wide variety of programmes and content spanning religious and consumer journalism, documentaries, worship, poetry, classical and pop music.
Based at MediaCity UK in Salford, the department produces content for Radios 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 6 Music and the World Service. Our programmes and podcasts include Sunday, Thought For The Day, Moral Maze, Beyond Belief, Sunday Worship, The Daily Service,d Prayer For The Day, You and Yours, Sliced Bread, Toast as well as The Verb and Saturday Breakfast for Radio 3 and Heart and Soul for World Service.
You can find out more about BBC Audio here.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC Religion & Ethics produces over 500 hours of content ever year, covering Factual, Worship and Music programmes. You will work on titles such as Sunday, Radio 4’s flagship religious news magazine show; Thought For The Day, a religious perspective on current events in the Today programme; Beyond Belief, the award winning and definitive religious discussion programme; Heart and Soul for the World Service; and the highly regarded ethical interrogation programme, the Moral Maze.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- You will be required to collaborate with colleagues across the full range of religion and ethics content, and other journalistic content across BBC Audio North as required.
- Working for BBC Religion & Ethics requires scheduled weekend working in rotation.
- We are looking for a producer who is full of ideas, a brilliant storyteller and a natural networker and gatherer of impressive contacts.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Capable of delivering our existing programmes confidently, competently and with flair.
- You will also bring some fresh thinking to what we do, where we go, and how we engage new audiences with where we place our content.
- You will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and a full understanding of journalism, as well as strong audio craft skills.
- You’ll bring ideas on how we might expand our portfolio in the digital space and take full advantage of the commissioning rounds across all the networks.
- And you will be an excellent team player, as willing and skilful with colleagues, as you are with the programmes you make.
- You will be able to demonstrate evidence of sound editorial judgement and leading on air teams in factual content.
CP25
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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