Senior Producer, BBC News - Los Angeles
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Location: Los Angeles, CA 90011
Description:
Package Description
Job Reference: 22357
Internal job title: Senior Journalist
Band: D
Salary range: $90,000 - $105,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: At will contract, the anticipated contract length is two years.
Location: Office Base is Los Angeles
This is a local hire position and eligible candidates must be able to live and work in the US (US citizenship, Green Card or work authorisation).
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 - you can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
It's an exciting time to be part of BBC News as we grow in North America. Our independent, impartial and unrivalled global journalism has made us one of the most trusted news brands in the US, where we reach tens of millions of people each week across digital, TV and radio.
The BBC is looking for a Senior Los Angeles producer to work with our news team in LA. We're looking for a terrific journalist with strong editorial and field experience. You will have a nose for a story, with excellent storytelling skills and first rate TV, Digital and Radio production skills.
Main Responsibilities
The Senior Producer works closely with the BBC's LA Correspondent to provide news content across the BBC's TV, Radio, digital channels and platforms, bringing the biggest US stories to our international and UK audiences. You will find and research original stories and news lines, work on pre planned news events and will be deployed to breaking news stories, working both in the field and in the bureau.
The BBC News LA team cover stories in the Western US but are also deployed across the country when needed.
Please note that this is not a Reporter position.
Are you the right candidate?
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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Senior Producer, BBC News - Los Angeles
Journalism
Fixed Term - Full Time
Job Reference: 22357
Internal job title: Senior Journalist
Band: D
Salary range: $90,000 - $105,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: At will contract, the anticipated contract length is two years.
Location: Office Base is Los Angeles
This is a local hire position and eligible candidates must be able to live and work in the US (US citizenship, Green Card or work authorisation).
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 - you can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
It's an exciting time to be part of BBC News as we grow in North America. Our independent, impartial and unrivalled global journalism has made us one of the most trusted news brands in the US, where we reach tens of millions of people each week across digital, TV and radio.
The BBC is looking for a Senior Los Angeles producer to work with our news team in LA. We're looking for a terrific journalist with strong editorial and field experience. You will have a nose for a story, with excellent storytelling skills and first rate TV, Digital and Radio production skills.
Main Responsibilities
The Senior Producer works closely with the BBC's LA Correspondent to provide news content across the BBC's TV, Radio, digital channels and platforms, bringing the biggest US stories to our international and UK audiences. You will find and research original stories and news lines, work on pre planned news events and will be deployed to breaking news stories, working both in the field and in the bureau.
The BBC News LA team cover stories in the Western US but are also deployed across the country when needed.
Please note that this is not a Reporter position.
Are you the right candidate?
- Extensive, demonstrable experience of producing original, high impact, high quality journalism in English for television, radio, digital video and online. Including excellent radio package editing skills.
- Excellent, proven editorial judgement and an authoritative grasp of your patch, US affairs in general and key issues of the day as well as the ability to translate them into accessible journalism
- The ability to work calmly, collaboratively, and safely in difficult conditions and to lead teams in hostile environments.
- Extensive, demonstrable and recent experience of Broadcast field production during busy breaking stories, confident at juggling the demands of the story, working under pressure, hitting tight deadlines, and communicating effectively with colleagues and other news gathering teams in the field.
- The necessary technical knowledge and skills, for example, editing packages for radio. You'll also have an aptitude and enthusiasm to learn and extend your creative and technical skills as a producer.
- Ability and willingness to travel anywhere in the US - often at short notice - and being able to work flexibly is essential.
- A thorough understanding of the BBC's global and domestic output requirements - its platforms, audiences, and ambitions.
- To be fully across new and constantly changing technology used to feed material back to base and go live from the field
- A thorough understanding of the requirements of digital output, including social media and demonstrable experience of delivering for them.
- Ability to adapt to changing audience habits and new formats and a willingness to undergo training to keep abreast of new technologies
- This is a local hire position and eligible candidates must be able to live and work in the US (US citizenship, Green Card, or existing work authorization)
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
WHY JOIN US
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Senior Producer, BBC News - Los Angeles
Journalism
Fixed Term - Full Time