Job Reference: 20585Band: CContract Type: 4 x Permanent/Continuing RolesLocation: Sydney, Australia - This role will involve working on weekends and public holidays.
Local terms and conditions apply.
Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in Australia.
IntroductionThe BBC News website is one of the world's largest and most popular news sites, with mobile and desktop editions for the UK and International audiences, as well as US and Asia editions, plus UK-facing and International-facing apps.
We are expanding our digital news operation in Sydney recruiting digital journalists to cover international and UK news in text and video. This operation will perform a crucial role in building the global audiences coming to the BBC as well as setting up our digital coverage to best serve and help grow the early morning UK audience coming to the site.
The team will take over coverage from digital output teams in the UK and US - to drive the biggest global stories as they happen and set up our UK morning offer seven days a week. It will work closely with teams in London, Washington DC and Singapore and alongside a small team of journalists already based in Sydney covering Australian news.
The team will be expected to run live pages on the biggest moving stories, produce news stories and sharp angles in text and video, curate different editions of the website and the BBC News app and work with BBC correspondents and reporters around the world to bring our reporting to millions of people.
Interviews for these roles are expected to take place in the week of 20th January.
Main ResponsibilitiesJournalists for the BBC's Digital Output team based in Sydney will be critical for writing the news stories, live pages and producing video coverage of the biggest daily news in the UK and globally, reaching millions of people.
They will be part of a team that picks up coverage from London and Washington and steers our coverage until the UK news teams sign on in the morning.
A Journalist on the News team will be expected to write accurate, pithy news stories or produce timely digital video - with flair and context. You will have a love of news and current affairs, sharp reporting skills and a thoughtful approach to how we tell a story.
Tasks could range from writing breaking news, writing live pages, news stories, cutting short video clips, making short video edits helping with our streaming operation or writing a news feature on a big rolling story. We will want journalists to monitor social and search trends and stay across audience data to help us improve our storytelling.
We are looking for journalists with a strong grasp of the UK and international news agenda and a keen awareness of the best ways of covering the news on digital platforms.
Are you the right candidate?Substantial recent experience of writing accurate, engaging and fast-paced news in text for digital audiencesExperience in producing and editing short news video clips and an awareness of the importance of video to news storytellingExperience of covering the UK and the international news agenda in text and video and a familiarity with the BBC's editorial valuesFamiliarity with using social media, search and audience data to improve storytelling and broaden coverageThe ability to come up with angles and approaches to the big stories of the day that will help us reach new and diverse audiencesAbout the BBCWe 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.
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DISCLAIMERThis 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.
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