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Fixed Term - Full Time
Salford, GB, M50 2QH
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 30th March 2025
THE ROLE
Job ref: 22398
Band: D
Contract details: 1x FTC/attachment starting May 2025 finishing January 2026
Location: Media City, Salford with UK travel across schools required - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office and location with home working.
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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.
Job Introduction
BBC Education exists to transform lives through learning and education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.
Our aims are
• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize
• Support and Inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming
• Help ensure children and young people have resources and opportunities they need to thrive through campaigns such as BBC Microbit and 500 Words
Main Responsibilities
The successful applicant will be responsible for the overall scheduling and delivery of the Bitesize Careers Tour in secondary schools across the UK. You will be responsible for the day to day management of a large team on location and in the office.
You will provide the editorial vision of the tour and have the ability to plan ahead for all likely eventualities and suggest/implement solutions to logistical and editorial problems. You will also work closely with our partner, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
Although this is a more ‘office’ based role, you will be required to travel on location too. This includes working away from home for a number of weeks. Therefore, the successful candidate must hold a UK driving licence.
It also requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment.
Are you the right candidate?
• You will have demonstrable experience in delivering large scale events.
• You would have demonstrable knowledge and an understanding of ways to present content that works for teenage audiences.
• You will have managed a large team to successfully deliver a project to hit its target including extensive line management experience, motivating teams to work collaboratively.
• You will be a strong communicator with experience of influencing and managing relationships with external partners and stakeholders.
• You will have demonstrable experience of working with children, safeguarding and health and safety.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of managing financial budgets and production schedules.
• Experience of dealing with talent and agents.
• Experience in working with indies and commissioning content.
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 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.
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; a DBS check and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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.
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