Journalist, BBC Turkish Services

Package Description

Job title: Journalist, BBC Turkish Services

Band: C

Contract type: FTC/Attachment, until 31st March 2025

Location: Office base is NBH, London

Final day to apply: 11:59pm (BST) Tuesday 7th January 2025

Salary: £27,300 – £35,150 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Recruiter: Ruman Dhillon

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. 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.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps – both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here. 

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for digital journalists who will be based in London to originate and produce, as part of the BBC Turkish team, a wide variety of news and current affairs content for website and social media platforms. The purpose of the role is primarily to initiate, gather and produce material for news, current affairs and general programming, making them relevant to a digital-native, young and under-served audiences.

Day to day duties will include:

• Use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards.
• Exercise editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• Take a lead within a team setting or on delivering a specific piece of journalism or project as appropriate.
• Develop creative storytelling approaches to social and online content, utilizing existing and new tools.
• To tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
• At all times to carry out duties in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy

Are you the Right Candidate?

To be successful in this role candidates must demonstrate:

• A demonstrable experience on covering the Turkish politics, social and economic issues and foreign policy.
• Fluency and up to date knowledge of spoken and written Turkish as first or equivalent language and the ability to type quickly and accurately.
• Complete comprehension of written and spoken English and the ability to communicate effectively.
• Excellent knowledge of digital journalism: social media production, best practices in search and social optimisation, web publishing, online analytics, data tools, etc.
• Expertise in using, understanding and interpreting digital analytics and data to maximise the impact of our social media output on different platforms and drive change when needed.
• Thorough and creative text writing and video editing skills with strong knowledge Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro being advantageous.
• Sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience.
• Effective planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output.
• The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
• An understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to broadcasting.

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

Package Description

Job title: Journalist, BBC Turkish Services

Band: C

Contract type: FTC/Attachment, until 31st March 2025

Location: Office base is NBH, London

Final day to apply: 11:59pm (BST) Tuesday 7th January 2025

Salary: £27,300 – £35,150 per annum depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Recruiter: Ruman Dhillon

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. 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.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps – both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here. 

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for digital journalists who will be based in London to originate and produce, as part of the BBC Turkish team, a wide variety of news and current affairs content for website and social media platforms. The purpose of the role is primarily to initiate, gather and produce material for news, current affairs and general programming, making them relevant to a digital-native, young and under-served audiences.

Day to day duties will include:

• Use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards.
• Exercise editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
• Take a lead within a team setting or on delivering a specific piece of journalism or project as appropriate.
• Develop creative storytelling approaches to social and online content, utilizing existing and new tools.
• To tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
• At all times to carry out duties in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy

Are you the Right Candidate?

To be successful in this role candidates must demonstrate:

• A demonstrable experience on covering the Turkish politics, social and economic issues and foreign policy.
• Fluency and up to date knowledge of spoken and written Turkish as first or equivalent language and the ability to type quickly and accurately.
• Complete comprehension of written and spoken English and the ability to communicate effectively.
• Excellent knowledge of digital journalism: social media production, best practices in search and social optimisation, web publishing, online analytics, data tools, etc.
• Expertise in using, understanding and interpreting digital analytics and data to maximise the impact of our social media output on different platforms and drive change when needed.
• Thorough and creative text writing and video editing skills with strong knowledge Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro being advantageous.
• Sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience.
• Effective planning and organising skills, ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output.
• The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
• An understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to broadcasting.

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

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