Producer – BBC (Salford)
Package Description
Job Reference: 18241
Band: D
Contract type: Continuing
Location: Media City – Salford, (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working)
Salary: £42,000 – £52,000 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. 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.
Job Introduction
BBC Creative is the BBC’s in-house Creative agency. Our purpose is to make as many people as possible love and value the BBC, by creating campaigns that will leave a positive mark on popular culture! We are now looking for a talented Producer to join our Production team.
You would join a team of creatively minded producers responsible for delivering the promotional campaigns and branding for the BBC, its content and services across all platforms – TV, digital, social, OOH etc.
Our work varies hugely – from the Olympic Games , Traitors, Hey Duggee and Galdiators working across all the brands and genres – from BBC One to Radio 1, iPlayer to Cbeebies, Drama to Live events.
If you like a challenge, then this is the place for you!
Main Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for scheduling, budgeting and managing the production(s) in line with divisional requirements, as well as identifying and sourcing appropriate resource and location requirements for the production(s) at the earliest possible stage.
- Ensure compliance with BBC policies, guidelines, legislative and regulatory requirements, in order to minimise the BBCs exposure to risk and to deliver value for money through effective and efficient management of people and resources.
- You will also be responsible for preparing, managing and monitoring production budgets, and for forecasting and reporting progress in line with best practice.
- You’ll help brands thrive and develop in the digital space across multiple platforms
- Produce hi-end multiplatform campaigns devised by BBC Creative, and ensure that that all output is high quality and is delivered on time and to budget.
- Create detailed cost estimates, timing plans, specification documents and communicating them to the team.
Are you the right candidate?
- Experience of working within the BBC editorial guidelines , legal, safeguarding, music copyright and all the relevant paperwork including Risk Assessments.
- Leadership – Managing a campaign team including production staff, creatives, designers, editors and external production partners
- Experience of producing budgets, schedules scoping scripts and managing post production workflows
- Ability to produce short-form multi-platform integrated campaigns (in an advertising or similar)
- Experience of managing and collaborating with stakeholders
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.
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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.
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