BBC Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Package Description
Job ID: 20943
Grade: Band C
Salary: £28,600 - £34,400 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Location: Belfast
Role Type: Continuing/Permanent and a Fixed Term Contract until September 2025
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
* 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, gym and much more.
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.
Job Introduction
BBC News NI and TV Current Affairs provides both breaking news, analysis and features, and a number of television current affairs strands, for local audiences and network TV. The newsroom and production teams are supported by a department responsible for production spend, staff effort and leave management, and organising the logistics of programme production.
We’re looking for people who are passionate about working with others and who love being organised, and keeping on top of fast paced and evolving workload.
Working in the Business and Support Team, the primary objective of the Production Co-ordinator is to provide logistical coordination and support to the production teams working on a number of productions.
Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will provide the day-to-day support to all areas of the current affairs team, leading on the preparation of call sheets, booking accommodation, transport and travel, visa applications, locations and payments for all production projects.
* Experience in building and maintaining detailed finance cost monitoring and reporting.
* Demonstrable knowledge of contracting crew and contributors via Purchasing/Smartbook and talent requisitions keeping across expenses and other supplementary payments.
* Experience of working in a fast paced production environment.
* Ability to meet conflicting deadlines and be able to respond flexibly to change.
* Demonstrates excellent organisational and planning skills, with keen attention to detail.
* Good time management skills, an ability to prioritise effectively, achieve maximum productivity and remain calm when under pressure.
* Work as a part of a team, build and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse range of people.
* Competencies in working through and building complex logistical plans ensuring that deployments/shoots are set up appropriately.
* Significant experience in generating call sheets and ensuring all talent, crew and contributors remain up to date with information as required.
* Experience in gathering and recording evidence throughout the course of a production for Albert.
* Experience of being task manager and main point of contact for staff and freelances working across output and keeping records of working hours.
* Able to support Production Managers in driving sustainable production techniques and efficiencies across processes.
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.
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 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.
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