Jobs and Opps at the BBC, Voice Mag, ITV, Indy Voices and Many More ✨
Everything on your list to apply to this week. 📝
I’m writing this message to you from a train, as I head up to Nottingham to deliver a talk, in-person. After the last few years, it’s fair to say that I’m pretty excited about the prospect of speaking to real people, making new connections, and taking full advantage of the free food and drink. However, that’s not to say the event hasn’t stressed me the hell out.
As I write this to you now, I’m sat on the tube and this newsletter is decidedly unfinished. In a little while, I’ll switch over to a big train, which gives me exactly one hour and forty three minutes to actually nail it before I have to walk to the venue (while calling my Dad to say happy birthday) and then getting ready for a sound check. At some point down the line, I also need to eat. The fact this is a new talk stresses me out too – I’ve not had chance to deliver it to an audience who isn’t my cat yet, and when I showed it to him last night he slept through the whole thing.
I’ve written a lot in these newsletters about stress, work-life balance and how to tweak your routine for the better. But the fact is, sometimes stress is completely unavoidable. News breaks. You have a deadline to make. Projects all mush together in the same time frame. Heck, life just happens. I’ve come to realise that while we can do as much as we can to minimise this, there’s no chance of eliminating it completely. There’s even some research to say occasional pressure can do us good. It’s how we react to the pressure and stress that matters.
Especially for journalists, who often wind up in high stress environments, it’s about recognising your stress signs, knowing how you best prioritise and work best in those situations, and making sure to create a hard end point to the stress. For me, it’s the latter that’s most important – a tangibly close time where you know the stress will ramp back down and give you the chance to breathe. And believe me when I say, I’m having a lie in tomorrow.
🚨 [EVENT] Last Chance To Brush Up On Social Media Law
We’ve all wondered whether we can use that photo or actually send that tweet, at some point in our journalism careers. Our next workshop with Dr Holly Powell-Jones tomorrow is a great introduction or refresher, running through the common risks and legal considerations, as well as interactive exercises and ethical considerations. As ever, all tickets are just £4 and include a copy of the watch back.
The BBC’s Journalism Apprenticeship Fast Track is here and they’re specifically looking for career changers and school leavers. It offers a starting salary of £15,074pa (plus £4,729 in London). There’s also a media production co-ordinator apprenticeship too, on the same rate.
There are also a team assistant role, which are entry-level too. They’re Band B, which is starting from £23,103pa and there’s one with the money, tech and data story teams
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have an interesting gig that can either be entry-level or more senior, where you’ll be part of their media team who amplify expert voices on poverty. Pays from £30,485pa and can be based in either London or York.
Today is your last chance for these two jobs with The Scarborough News, which close today. There’s one as a part-time senior reporter and another as a local democracy reporter, both paying in excess of £23,000pa FTE.
🕑 Two Kickstart jobs here with Voice Mag. They’re looking for both a social media coordinator and a trainee journalist and you’ll work 25 hours a week on the National Minimum Wage. You need to be 18-24, receiving universal credit and able to start by the end of March.
🚨 Last call for the Aziz Fellowship with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It pays London Living Wage and is a full-time, six month contract for someone from a Muslim background.
🚨 🏡 🕑 The first day of the month is your deadline to come and work with us as our new membership manager! It’s two and a half days a week and pays £25,000pa FTE.
EachOther are hiring again! This time they’re looking for a film assistant to help on documentary shoots, create social assets and run live streams. Pays £23,000pa FTE.
🏡 Road.cc are looking for a writer to focus on e-bikes and you can be based anywhere around the country. Pays up to £24,000pa.
The ITV Trainee Production Journalist Scheme is open, with 12 slots available across the country. It pays £24,839pa outside of London and £26,660pa in it.
This is a fun one! As part of Birmingham 2022’s Commonwealth Games, they’re looking for emerging talent to become their in venue hosts and announcers. Pay is at least the National Minimum Wage.
🚨 Finally, it’s also the last call for PR, content and media execs at Liberty PR, who are looking to up their team. Pays £18-25,000pa.
Index on Censorship are looking an assistant editor to write for both the magazine and the website. It pays £25-30,000pa.
A couple of great BBC gigs here – they’re looking for several journalists BBC Asian Network where you’ll work on regular bulletins for young audiences, they also have a vacancy at BBC South East, BBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Online, and at BBC Sport. They’re all Band C, which is somewhere in the middle of £25,670-50,313pa.
The Express and Star and the Shropshire Star are on the lookout for a group editor to lead digital editorial strategy across their news websites. Pays £34-45,000pa.
🚨 Last chance for the multimedia producer role at openDemocracy which is fully remote and pays from £32,150-37,000pa depending on where you’re based.
🚨 🏡 All three jobs at the Center For Countering Digital Hate also closing at the end of the month. They’ve got a few roles which are great for people with social or data experience including a research officer (£30,000pa), a data researcher (£45,000pa), and a research manager (£45,000pa).
🚨 Also last call for the digital producer gig with British Forces Broadcasting Services, where you’ll be paid £28-32,000pa and focus on original journalism.
Mildly obsessed with the challenge to make more from the Student Loans Company than they do off you. Either way they’re looking for a content producer and it pays £26,250-32,000pa.
🚨 Up to £45,000pa on offer as a digital journalist / editor with efinancialcareers – and it genuinely seems fascinating as you write about why people stick in 100 hour a week jobs or leave Facebook to work at banks.
STV are looking for a reporter to work on their most watched programme, STV News at Six. It pays £22,640-34,000pa.
And, finally, this is a nice one from ActionAid UK who are looking for someone to gather stories and write content. They’re offering £35,608-36,685pa.
🏡 The Finance Innovation Lab is looking for a freelance research assistant to scan government websites to feed into their monthly reports. It pays £100 a day. There’s also a freelance research assistant at Luminance Insight for £200 a day.
A couple of adjacent ones here – up to £200 a day for web copywriters here for a three-week gig, up to £18ph for this freelance social media coordinator gig which lasts three months, and up to £382 a day as a content strategist. This social copywriter job pays £300-450 a day.
Victoria Richards at Indy Voices is looking for more pitches on cultural commentary as well as cover for weekend and adhoc shifts.
Ben Cooke is now heading up at The Times’ Earth section and he’s open to your pitches.
There’s a freelance content writer role here with the Business of Apps. They’re looking for someone to write longform, SEO copy and will guarantee regular hours.
Jessica Noah Morgan is looking to add to the freelance roster at Bustle. Send your details over this way.
Matt Spencer at The Jeremy Vine show on Channel 5 has a call out for a freelance digital producer. Get in touch here.
My Imperfect Life are looking for a junior writer to focus on some SEO work for them, and they’ll make sure to offer training too.
If you’ve experience writing about either sustainability or carbon credits this gig might be one for you – get in touch with Amy Beeson here.
Red Magazine are looking for UK-based sex and relationship writers and you can drop your details over this way.
And, finally, The Mace, which covers the business of politics is looking for pitches until the end of this week. Send them this way.
🎪 We also have tickets live for our free introduction to climate journalism event, in conjunction with Climate Home News and a workshop on how to pitch to international publications and outlets.
🚨🆓 Our wonderful friends at the Student Publication Association have got a free weekend of training this weekend, tailored to students and recent grads. Sign up here for sessions on investigations, magazines design and more.
🚨 An end of the month deadline for the Substack Food Writer Intensive. Ten people will get US$10,000, 1-2-1 mentoring and more.
🚨 The first day of March is the last call for the Jane Constance Scholarship to support North East women pursue a career in journalism. It offers a £6,250 bursary to support study at Newcastle University.
The Aziz Foundation are offering 100 scholarships for masters study for Muslims with home fee status – and a number of journalism courses are eligible.
The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism are now open for 2022 and recognises courageous reporting of conflict, corruption, and human rights transgressions.
There’s not long left to apply for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and the prize for exposing social evils.
Investigative journalists worldwide are able to apply for up to US$80,000 to investigate stories on crimes against journalists and bloggers.
The Lorenzo Natali Media Prize is back open and focuses on stories about the challenges facing our planet and people. There are a set list of eligible countries and prizes of up to €10,000.
The annual One World Fellowship is back – it’s a year-long programme for 12 fellows to tell stories on the Global South. You’ll get £1,000 and support.
And, finally, the Girl Rising Fellowships are open to those aged 17-24 and passionate about gender equality and climate change. There’s a stipend of US$5,000 and professional support.
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