Content Assistant (Radio Foyle)

Job description

Radio Foyle is the BBC’s multiple-award winning, multi-media production base in the North West of Northern Ireland.  It is a speech-based service providing news, sport, music, conversation and entertainment.  It is valued in particular for the quality of local information and voices, comprehensive news and sport coverage, stimulating debate, companionship and humour.  Radio Foyle has a diverse output, so content assistants can be required to work across a variety of genres.

We are looking for a Content Assistant to be based in Londonderry on attachment/fixed term contract for six months.

Role Responsibility

As a Content Assistant, you must be a team player who has a passion for engaging and informing the BBC Radio Foyle audience, coming up with solid programme and story ideas.  You will help the producers set up the programmes by coming up with ideas, researching stories, finding suitable contributors, recording and editing interviews, editing programme websites, and undertaking administrative duties.  You will provide support for live programmes, so you will be expected to coordinate the arrival of guests, process audience correspondence, and make on-air contributions in the form of pre-recorded vox pops or packages, or live reports.  You will work across various types of programmes, and your working hours will vary so you will have a flexible approach to working.

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful in this role you will have strong journalistic skills and be comfortable applying lateral thinking to story-telling.  You will help to produce consistently creative content whilst working to tight deadlines and under pressure.  You will also be comfortable with social media and appreciate the opportunities to exploit social media for the station, individual programmes and presenters.

Package Description

Grade 5

Attachment/fixed term contract for 6 months

About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are very important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. You’ll be asked questions relating to them as part of your application for this role.