Producer, Religion & Ethics, BBC Audio North Producer, Religion & Ethics, BBC Audio North

BBC Religion & Ethics produces over 500 hours of content ever year, to which our factual and journalism team make an invaluable contribution. You will work on titles such as Sunday, Radio 4's flagship religious news magazine show; Thought For The Day a religious perspective on current events in the Today programme; Beyond Belief, the award winning and definitive religious discussion programme; Heart and Soul for the World Service; and the highly regarded ethical interrogation programme, the Moral Maze.

You will also be required to collaborate with colleagues across the full range of religion and ethics content, and other journalistic content across BBC Audio North as required.

We are looking for a producer who is full of ideas, a brilliant storyteller brilliant and a natural networker and gatherer of impressive contacts.

• Capable of delivering our existing programmes confidently, competently and with flair.


• You will also bring some fresh thinking to what we do, where we go, and how we engage new audiences with where we place our content.


• You will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and a full understanding of journalism, as well as strong audio craft skills.


• You'll bring ideas on how we might expand our portfolio in the digital space and take full advantage of the commissioning rounds across all the networks.


• And you will be an excellent team player, as willing and skilful with colleagues, as you are with the programmes you make.


• You will be able to demonstrate evidence of sound editorial judgement.
  
  BBC Audio North produces a wide variety of programmes and content spanning religious and consumer journalism, documentaries, worship, poetry, classical and pop music.


Based at MediaCity UK in Salford, the department produces content for Radios 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 6 Music and the World Service. Our programmes and podcasts include Sunday Worship, Thought For The Day, The Daily Service, Sunday, Moral Maze, Beyond Belief, Prayer For The Day, You and Yours, Sliced Bread, Toast as well as The Verb and Saturday Breakfast for Radio 3 and Heart and Soul for World Service., 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.

Salary: £39,390 - £52,250 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.


• 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, gym and much more.


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.