Senior Journalist, Bbc Burmese

3 days ago

กรงเทพมหานคร, Thailand BBC Full time

Job Introduction
- BBC World Service is an international news provider, part of BBC News, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on digital, TV and radio. It reaches a weekly audience of around 364 million around the world, _helping them make sense of the world we live in. _

Main Responsibilities
- Accountable for supervising the production of text, video and social content and innovative editorial projects to serve BBC News Burmese’s audiences.
- Commissioning and selecting relevant material ensuring they meet expectations of our audiences and adhere to the BBC’s editorial guidelines.
- To be an in-house authority on best practice production of digital and social content, particularly as it relates to the BBC News Burmese’s context, to test and report back on digital initiatives and stay abreast of trends and developments.
- Actively seek ways to reach young and female audiences and introduce and implement strategies to improve engagement with them.
- To lead a team of journalists in producing and reversioning impactful and accurate digital content relevant to the target audiences.
- Deliver journalism of the highest standard and within the required timeframe using available resources.
- Significant recent experience as a journalist, particularly covering Myanmar, South East Asia including Thailand and global news and current affairs.
- A full command and up to date knowledge of written and spoken Burmese as first (or equivalent) language as well as complete comprehension of written and spoken English and the ability to communicate effectively.
- In-depth knowledge of data analytics and experience of using it to shape the content and meet the needs of different audience groups.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Myanmar and Asia affairs and the ability to lead the production of impactful original digital content as well as the coverage of major breaking news.
- Experience of commissioning, editing, structuring and writing sharp, engaging news and current affairs in a range of digital formats and generating ideas to reach wider audiences.
- To be able to write quickly, clearly and engagingly and sub-edit or rework scripts in Burmese that can be used by all platforms.

About the BBC
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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.

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Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: Continuing/Permanent
Location: Bangkok

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