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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: twelve-month Attachment, full-time / fixed-term contract, full-time.
DEPARTMENT: News and Current Affairs, BBC World Service Group, BBC Monitoring
LOCATION: London – Hybrid – the team are in 2 days a week minimum (team days are Monday and Tuesday)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £33,000 - £37,000pa plus London Weighting (£5,441pa), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Monitoring (BBCM) is part of the BBC's newsgathering operation, with journalists based in the UK and international offices. It provides news and information based on monitoring open source media from over 150 countries in more than 70 languages. Our extensive operation enables us to provide insightful and reliable coverage of political, economic, security and media news. Our content and expertise based on round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press, digital and social media is used by a range of BBC platforms and is also provided to the UK government and commercial clients.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join a high-performing team and help BBC Monitoring’s customers understand the Chinese media environment, narratives aimed at domestic and international audiences, media trends, as well as China’s global influence as discerned from a range of international and regional media, including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan. We increasingly do data-led journalism and use technology to mine the media for information and story ideas. You will be based in London.
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Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
As a Journalist you will:
- Follow Chinese broadcast, print and online media daily to report on latest developments and track China’s response to big international stories
- Use your expertise to produce a full range of output in native-level English and in approved BBC Monitoring formats, in line with our style and content guides
- Collaborate with colleagues in other BBCM and BBC teams to share insights and work on output capturing China’s global influence
- Task, support and mentor freelancers
- Keep up to date with global news agenda and come up with unique news angles of interest to BBCM customers
- Keep up to date with technological advances and be able to engage with data-led journalism
Your Skills And Experience
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Proven editorial judgement, flair and excellent news writing
- Native-level fluency in Mandarin Chinese, a thorough knowledge and understanding of China’s media narratives and expertise in the media environment
- Ability to write in engaging, native-level English for the intended audience, suitable for delivery on multiple platforms
- An interest in international news and media developments globally
- Able to show how you demonstrate the BBC’s values across your work
Desirable
- Some experience in data-led journalism
- Proficiency with new technologies, including potential AI uses and guardrails
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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Close 16 August 2026
There will be a written assessment, to assess their language skills, as part of the recruitment process.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
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