Senior journalist, BBC Sport

Closing date for applications: 28th July 2025

Salary: £43,000 - £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 1 x permanent full time contract and 3 x fixed term contracts, full time are available

Location: Salford Media City – hybrid. This role involves shift work including evenings and weekends.

Department: BBC Sport

Want to help BBC Sport deliver the biggest events and stories to their audiences every day?

BBC Audio Sport is looking for experienced senior journalists to produce and deliver top programmes like 5 Live Sport, Monday Night Club, and Premier League Sunday, along with our world-class live coverage. We're also keen to hear from creative audio storytellers who can help grow our on-demand titles such as Football Daily, Rugby Union Weekly, and The Tooney & Russo Show. A strong commitment to delivering content across all BBC Sport platforms is essential.

We’re looking for creative, collaborative individuals to produce high-quality, engaging sport content—both live and recorded. You’ll work closely with on-air talent, write and edit scripts, and use your editorial judgement to shape distinctive programmes across platforms. You will also provide an element of editorial leadership and supervision to the 5 Live Sport team, as well as managing your own short term and long term projects.


Responsibilities

• Produce complex live sport programmes in studio and develop original ideas for engaging discussion shows
• Oversee sport coverage planning and delivery, managing resources and budgets
• Make sound editorial decisions and ensure content meets BBC standards and lead team meetings, encouraging input from all members
• Develop programme and podcast formats from briefs
• Adapt content for multiple BBC platforms to maximise reach
• Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships, briefing contributors effectively to enhance on-air performance and giving and receiving feedback constructively, fostering positive teamwork

Knowledge, skills & experience

Essential

• Extensive live output experience of complex programmes and the ability to edit audio quickly while identifying the best content
• Experience of working with/creating digital content (podcasts, digital video or social media)
• Proven ability to write for radio audiences, adapting to different presenters and programmes
• Proven and demonstrable knowledge and passion for a wide range of sports, including 5 Live Sport output and how to appeal to different audiences
• Experience of prioritising and delegating to maintain effective performance

Desirable

• Mindset is important: we want enthusiasm, ideas and creativity coupled with good communication and organisational skills
• Demonstrable commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the workplace and output
• Curiosity to continue learning, particularly in relation to the different sports we can and could cover, and their audiences

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. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.