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Closing date for applications:&nbsp;19th November 2025Salary: £44,000 - £54,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.Location: Salford, ManchesterContract type: Permanent, full-time&nbsp;Department: BBC SportJob band: D Lead storytelling at the heart of BBC Sport and create powerful features that uncover the human stories behind sports.BBC Sport is seeking a creative and experienced senior journalist to lead our Insight series within the Sport+ team. This role involves commissioning and delivering high-quality, long-read features, aimed at both UK and global audiences.Insight is a series dedicated to uncovering the human stories behind the sport. From exploring how a Premier League footballer rebuilt his confidence after a career-threatening injury, to revealing the personal sacrifices behind an Olympic gold medal, Insight pieces aim to get under the skin of athletes and the sporting world they inhabit. The successful candidate will lead this storytelling, commissioning and crafting features that are rich in character, emotion and perspective, content that resonates deeply with audiences and reflects the BBC’s commitment to thoughtful, high-quality journalism.You will balance writing your own pieces with guiding and commissioning others, ensuring all content is impactful, well-crafted, and editorially sound. You will also contribute to wider Sport+ projects, helping shape long-form and evergreen content from concept to delivery, and managing associated written output. This is a hybrid role based in Salford, with an approximate 70/30 split between office and remote working. Repsonsibliites<ul><li>Lead the Insight series by generating ideas, commissioning features, and overseeing delivery and promotion.</li><li>Write original long-form pieces and commission freelance contributors, including expert analysis and interviews with high-profile sports figures.</li><li>Develop clear briefs and provide editorial guidance to ensure all content meets BBC standards.</li><li>Work alongside Production Manager on the most efficient use of the budget, planning content to maintain consistent output.</li><li>Collaborate with the Sport+ and BBC Sport website teams on broader projects, contributing to ideation, production, and written content strategy.</li><li>Ensure content is engaging, timeless, and tailored for digital audiences, with strong performance across platforms and social media.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential&nbsp;<ul><li>A strong track record in writing and commissioning long-form journalism.</li><li>Excellent editorial judgement and a deep understanding of what makes a compelling feature.</li><li>Demonstrable experience of developing writers’ work through constructive feedback.</li><li>Thorough knowledge of digital platforms and audience engagement strategies.</li><li>A solid grounding in sports journalism, with the ability to make informed editorial decisions and a demonstrable passion for human-interest stories in sport and a commitment to quality storytelling.</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Experience managing freelance budgets is desirable.</li></ul>This is a senior role, and we are seeking candidates with demonstrable experience in feature journalism. Please review the criteria carefully before applying. 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. &nbsp; 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.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.&nbsp;

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Senior journalist, Sport+ (Insight)

Closing date for applications: 24th November 2025Location: MediaCityUK, Salford Looking to further your production career? Join the BBC Studios Productions talent pool and open the door to future roles working on exciting, purpose-driven documentaries.BBC Studios Productions is a global content powerhouse with a unique breadth and range, creating high-quality, award-winning, ambitious content across an extraordinary range of genres and specialisms. The BBC documentary unit&nbsp;is home to some of the UK’s most highly regarded talent, both on and off screen. Across our bases, we craft bold, distinctive content with purpose—entertaining and educating audiences through powerful authored storytelling, a strong sense of purpose and a breadth of specialist knowledge.We are proud of our culture of inclusion, where teams thrive on collaboration and production management colleagues support one another across locations and projects. Whether it’s the harrowing realities explored in&nbsp;Life and Death Row, the acclaimed access-driven series&nbsp;The Met, the sharp consumer journalism of&nbsp;Rip Off Britain, or the moving and urgent&nbsp;Sarah: The Search for Justice, The Documentary Unit prides itself on being the heart of true and impactful story telling.We’re opening up a production management assistant (PMA) talent pool as we are anticipating a number of PMA roles needed across our productions in 2026. Currently we are predicting PMA roles on The One Show and Rip Off Britain. These PMA roles are based in MediaCityUK, Salford and will be hybrid working 2/3 days a week in the office along with location and studio based filming when required. Other PMA roles may be appointed on other productions from this talent pool. How talent pools workThese talent pools are an opportunity for us to reach out and engage with experienced production management assistants who want to work with the documentary unit team. Unfortunately, being in the pool doesn't mean you'll be guaranteed to work with us, but it does mean you'll be considered when opportunities arise. These pools will form a database for us to refer to when opportunities come up. If we approach you and you are not available, don't worry! We understand that's the nature of freelance.&nbsp;Advantages of being in a talent pool:<ul><li>Applying now means you shouldn't need to go through an assessment process for future opportunities</li><li>You don't need to be available now to apply - this is about making sure you're considered for anything we have over the next 12 months</li><li>If you don't know our hiring managers, this is an excellent opportunity to start building relationships with them and show them your skills</li></ul> Knowledge, skills &amp; experience<ul><li>You must have at least one credit working as a production management assistant or production secretary within TV Broadcast production</li><li>A keen interest in the types of programmes that we produce, experience of working on factual output is an advantage</li><li>Have experience of providing administrative support in a busy production environment along with the ability to work in pressurised and challenging situations</li><li>Able to manage relationships effectively while working with a variety of people and work collaboratively within a diverse team</li><li>Demonstrate strong organisational skills and able to manage conflicting demands to meet deadlines</li><li>A good communicator, hold good attention to detail when working at pace</li><li>Initiative and problem-solving ability and have a can-do attitude</li><li>Confident Microsoft Word and Excel skills</li><li>A passion for driving sustainable practices across all of our productions</li><li>Experience of post production paperwork (Silvermouse)&nbsp;</li></ul> 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.

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