Package Description

Contract: Permanent contract; Full-Time 
Location: Glasgow (Office based) 
Band: D

Job Reference: 24169

Salary: £39,800 - £47,000 pro rata 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. 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.

1.    Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2.    Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3.    Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (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.

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

Job Introduction

Radio Scotland’s three news programmes – Good Morning Scotland, Lunchtime Live and Drivetime – lead the news agenda across the country on a daily basis. We consistently break the day’s news, hold top politicians to account and highlight human interest stories that reflect Scotland’s people.

We are looking for a Senior Journalist to join the team, taking responsibility for putting together and outputting these programmes as well as leading and directing a team of journalists while on shift.  This is an excellent opportunity for those who are interested in politics, cultural life, domestic and foreign news to shape the news agenda.

This is an opportunity to lead the flagship programmes of the station, outputting in the studio and taking on the key responsibility of setting the news agenda across BBC Scotland.

This role involves overnight working in the outputting of Good Morning Scotland, plus weekend working in the programme’s production.

We are really keen to hear from female candidates and those from underrepresented backgrounds who can bring their unique perspectives to our team.

The role is office based at Pacific Quay, Glasgow.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Journalist, some of your main responsibilities will include the following:

• Decide on the stories for the programmes and lead others on the production of items through to going live on air. This includes assigning, briefing and determining priorities.
• Strong editorial judgment, ability to make sound decisions quickly and under pressure.
• Responsible for building morale/team spirit within teams; ensuring the best use of individual skills/abilities. Encouraging team members to think about how to do things better.
• Seek ways to increase diversity in our workforce and to ensure that our output reflects the audiences we serve.
• Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest standards of journalism.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate will have:

• A high standard of editorial judgment, writing ability and production skills based on substantial broadcast journalism experience.
• The ability to work effectively as a member of more than one team. 
• Resolve issues as necessary.
• The ability to manage resources, staff, and technical facilities, in order to make challenging broadcasting in the most cost effective manner.
• Prioritise and plan activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
• A thorough understanding of the Scottish news agenda and the stories which affect our audience. 
• Clear understanding of our programmes and their purpose
• Sound political judgement.

About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care about 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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