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Job Reference: 18071
Band: C
Salary:  £30,000 – £38,750 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type:  2 x Permanent role – Hybrid
Location: London News Broadcasting House

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits – We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps – both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here

Job Introduction

The News Design team is a multi-platform, multi-disciplinary team within BBC News.

We are responsible for the design and visualisation of a story end to end, across all platforms from our website and app to our flagship news broadcasts and social accounts. The team brings together digital designers, TV designers and developers to provide compelling visual coverage of the biggest and most significant stories.

The Junior Infographic Designer will work in this multi-platform landscape to develop and deliver design solutions that tell our stories through, diagrams, data visualisations, maps, and other information graphics, whilst ensuring their work meets the highest creative and editorial standards, with adherence to BBC guidelines.

Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.

Main Responsibilities

• Create maps, diagrams, data visualisations and other information graphics across platforms.
• Be comfortable working in an exciting, fast-paced news environment, usually within tight timeframes managing competing demands.
• Have good communication skills, able to communicate ideas and design decisions to others,
• Possess sound problem-solving techniques and the ability to explore creative solutions to design and storytelling problems.
• Work within relevant BBC design frameworks and collaborate with others to continue the development of this framework.
• Follow a human-centred approach, be the champion of the audience, constantly interrogating user data, to understand how people experience our content and how we can continue to improve this experience.
• Collaborate effectively with others ensuring you maintain excellent relationships throughout, whilst advocating for the user, design frameworks and our core design values.
• Be aware of editorial skills and processes related to infographics.
• Be able to manage your own time and workload.
• Support a positive working environment that considers the needs of a diverse team.
• Ensure our content reflects our diverse audiences.
• Keeping up to date with current and emerging industry trends, you’re proactive, curious and articulate, sharing ideas and experiences with the wider team.
• Be accountable for the quality of your work and ensure it meets intended purposes.
• Be accountable for the usability and accessibility of design deliveries for the broadest possible cross-section of users.

Are you the right person?

• A portfolio clearly demonstrating your ability to work effectively in the role: showing relevant design work, the process behind it, skills and experience.
• Information graphic design skills: the ability to create diagrams to visually explain complex information clearly.
• The ability to work with data and an understanding of dataviz techniques and which to use to most effectively present certain data and tell a story.
• Experience working either in a newsroom or other setting where you have been responsible for information graphic design
• Map design skills: the ability to create a variety of maps from simple vector-based country locator maps to (ideally) satellite image-based maps with overlaid data. An understanding of relevant production tools and processes.
• Visual Design skills, showing core abilities in type, colour, layout.
• Proven ability to design for scale and re-use, to think in systems and design beyond bespoke solutions.
• Expert skills in relevant design software and production tools.
• A passion for Infographics, News and storytelling.
• Ideally basic UX design skills and ability to use software such as Figma or XD.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of the importance of the BBC’s values in accuracy and impartiality.

About the BBC

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

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

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.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.