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Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Job Introduction
We are looking for a Commercial Rights and Business Affairs (CRBA) Executive to join the BBC Commercial, Rights and Business Affairs (CRBA) initially in the Audio Commissioning team. This is a permanent role based in Salford.
CRBA manages and connects the BBC's Intellectual Property, strategic and business interests through expert negotiation, contracting and commercial deal-making. It is comprised of multiple business teams embedded in Content (including Television, Radio & Music, Children's & Education, Sport), News, Technology & Product, the Nations, plus a central CRBA team. The teams share many common business activities key to the commissioning, production and distribution of the BBC's services and content. Also, the teams work with the BBC's professional services including Finance, HR, Legal, Editorial Policy and Strategy.
The Audio Commissioning team is a multi-disciplinary team, responsible for contracting independent producers and supporting the delivery of BBC Sounds and network strategy.
This is an exciting opportunity at a pivotal time for the BBC. You will be instrumental in helping the BBC to fulfil its ambitious audio strategy and cement its important partnerships with the independent production sector.
Although you may be assigned to a particular CRBA area and workload, from time to time you be required to work in other areas of CRBA to broaden knowledge, skills and experience.
All CRBA colleagues are 'agile workers' and our expectation is that they will work an average of 2-3 days per week in BBC buildings.
Main Responsibilities
As a CRBA Executive, you will work with commissioners in the speech and music networks and be responsible for your own workload of commissioning agreements, as well as liaising with external producers and various internal stakeholders.
Are you the right candidate?
To be successful in this role the following skills, knowledge and experience are essential:
* Legal qualifications OR previous experience in a legal or business affairs team
* Negotiating and drafting skills
* An interest in radio and podcasts
The following are desirable:
* The UK audio industry and related BBC policy and strategy
* Music copyright
Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office base is Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
Salary: anticipated salary range £30,000 to £40,000pa, 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.
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.
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.
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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