BBC Hiring for Journalism Researcher, Own It, Children’s & Education Job at Manchester, England Full Time

Would making content that helps people to make good choices and supporting those who may be struggling in their online life give you a positive & uplifting feeling about your work?

If so, the Own It team are looking for a Journalism Researcher to join their team.

The Own It App is a wellbeing product aimed at young people receiving their very first smartphone and entering a personal digital world. Using a unique combination of self-reporting and machine learning the technology assists children in making good choices and intervenes when potentially harmful situations are encountered. Engaging, short, snack-able content is served to the audience via a daily feed or delivered as an intervention to help guide young people’s behaviour in the right direction.

BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.

The Own It App is in line with the overall aims of Education as a department, which are to:

• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize;

• Support & inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming; through BBC Teach;

• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns, such as Tiny Happy People and Regenerators.

Main Responsibilities

As part of the Own It the team, the journalism researcher will build content items within a CMS, including articles, quizzes and video and generate ideas for the Own It app and web platforms, contributing to the creative treatment of that content.

You will carry out in-depth research for all of Own It’s platforms, ensuring complete accuracy and relevance to the subject along with liaising with contributors, experts and talent to set up shoots and stories. You will build relationships with other teams and work closely with other departments, including Newsround and the wider Children’s & Education team,

Are you the right candidate?

Can you generate great story ideas and turn those ideas into compelling content for our audience of 8 – 12-year-old kids plus their parents and teachers?

We’re looking for a self-starting individual with excellent research skills. Someone who can carry out in-depth research on topics relating to online safety and digital wellbeing and can write great copy that contains all the right information whilst also being clear and concise.

Confident in working with talent, with kids and young people, you should also be able to discuss a complicated concept with a consultant.

The ideal person for this role is confident in finding the right people to talk to in order to get to the heart of the story and produce a great piece of compelling content. The believe diversity & inclusivity is more than just words and instead see how they are the building of better, happier communities in work and in life.

The role needs someone with skills & experience behind a camera and outstanding digital editing skills as well as the ability to learn new software and other tools and to teach others how to use them too.

An ability to be unfazed by tight deadlines and excited by a varied workload where the tasks are driven by what you input into the team are a must as well.

About the BBC

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 in the document attached below.

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

Package Description

Band: B
Contract type: FTC / Attachment ( Backfill cover ) Starting Sept 21 – March 22
Location: Media City, Salford & remote working

We would encourage you to approach your CV as an application, and to tailor it to highlight the skills and experience which we’ve talked about in this advert and the job description including the job appendix. We’d love to know not only about your most relevant experience and responsibilities in previous roles, but also any achievements, transferable skills, or areas of personal or professional interest that highlight why you’d be a great candidate for this role.

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

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