Job Summary

Job Band: C

Contract type: Full time. Fixed-term Contract until 22/01/2027

Department: BBC Cymru Wales, Sport

Location: Cardiff - Hybrid

Proposed salary range: £27,600 - £33,900, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We are BBC Studios

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. We are the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

BBC Extend

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people.

To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact [email protected].

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.

Details and purpose of the role

This is an opportunity to be part of the BBC Sport Wales team covering sporting stories from across Wales.

This role will involve managing and coordinating the BBC Sport Wales social media channels as well as producing content for them. Covering sport in the country on a national and domestic basis and helping shape the growth on these platforms.

We’re looking for an ambitious journalist, who is keen to ensure the BBC remains at the heart of the local conversation.

Why join the team

The BBC Sport Wales social media channels are on an exciting journey of growth. Within this role you will be able to help be a part of continuing this journey and having your own input on the coverage of Welsh sport to an ever-growing audience. This role involves varied working hours, including some evening and weekend working.   

Your key responsibilities and impact

• Looking after BBC Sport Wales’ social media channels from ideation through to publication.
• Strong knowledge of latest social media trends and how these could be applied in everyday work.
• Strong knowledge of Welsh sport and sport as a whole, as well as keeping across the latest stories.
• Editing short-form video for the website and social media.
• Covering live sporting events and working in a fast-paced environment.

Your skills and experience

Essential criteria

• Strong journalistic and editorial skills.
• In-depth knowledge of social media platforms and latest trends.
• Ability to edit video and create platform-specific content.
• In-depth knowledge of Welsh sport and sport globally.
• Ability to create engaging copy for social media platforms.

Desired but not required:

• Adobe Suite knowledge.
• Welsh language.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. 

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC.

Life at the BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary  package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on a fixed term or orchestra contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging at the BBC.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. 

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [email protected].  

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.

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. 

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]. 

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.