Package Description

Contract: 3 months Fixed Term/ Attachment - Full-Time (Hybrid working)

Location: Southampton

Band: C

Job Reference: 20692

Salary: £27,300 - £32,500 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.

Job Introduction

BBC Radio Solent is the South's original local radio station, and the longest serving radio brand on the South coast.

Serving a TSA of almost two million people across Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, we reflect the lives of the counties’ residents in everything we do.

We’re looking for a journalist to lead our social media coverage and join our talented team in our Southampton studios; someone who will drive our social profile, create content fitting our social media strategy and help reach new audiences.

Main Responsibilities

As a social media journalist, you will:

• Oversee our social media accounts, being the voice and personality for those who engage with us on social media.
• Have experience of both implementing social media strategies and how to reach new audiences with engaging content.
• Create posts and content, working with programme teams and creating video content, images, and visualising radio moments.
• Make your own bespoke stories, creating content that will travel across other platforms like TV and online.
• Work closely with programme producers to turn our best audio content into social and digital successes, ensuring all our best bits reach fresh eyes and ears.
• Use social media to reach out and form contacts with public groups and pages that consistently produce high-performing content.
• Apply your enthusiasm for social media trends and digital marketing and turn your ideas into creative engaging content.
• Thrive from working in a fast paced, creative environment and will be eager to improve our reach, engagement and interaction, working to the requirements of BBC Local's social media strategy.

Are you the right candidate?

We’re looking for a highly motivated, creative thinker with the ability to produce high impact social media content.

You’ll recognise the importance of combining visual appeal with great audio to build brand awareness and engagement.

You’ll be experienced in making engaging digital content, have a passion for audio and love telling people’s stories.

You’ll have a keen eye for design and detail, know what works with the audience and be experienced in using analytics to drive our future approach.

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.

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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