Package Description
Band: B
Contract details: 1x FTC/attachment role starting 01/05/2025 to 27/02/2026
Location: Media City, Salford - This is a hybrid role but will require a minimum of two days on site each week.
Salary: £24,300 to £29,000 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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our.
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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.
Job Introduction
BBC Bitesize is looking for Researcher(s) to be a key part of the team delivering Bitesize Curriculum content. You will work closely with Bitesize Producers and Researchers, and with teams across the wider Education department and Nations, to deliver excellent, curriculum-focussed content for audiences aged 4-16.
Main Responsibilities
You will have a key role in the delivery of the following curriculum project:
• Primary History
You will support the Producers and Assistant Producers to deliver commissioned suites of content.
You will deliver digital resources that may include video, text, infographics, bespoke games and interactive activities.
The content you create will both inspire and support young learners in their formal education.
Are you the right candidate?
You will need to:
• Have a solid understanding of the UK curricula.
• Have experience of creating high-quality, web-native, digital learning content.
• Be able to generate great ideas to help deliver learning online and make these a reality.
• Be able to initiate, set-up and run user-testing and/or audience insight sessions.
• Be able to work within established project management workflows to effectively deliver defined components of complex digital projects.
• Have experience of commissioning infographics and written content from specialist writers.
• Be able to accurately edit large volumes of text for online publication.
• Evidence a range of digital publishing skills, including previous use of CMS’s (e.g. iSite), video upload software (e.g iBroadcast), and image editing software (e.g. PhotoShop or Illustrator).
• Have practical editorial experience in making content for children and applying appropriate editorial judgement.
This role 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.
About Bitesize
BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.
Our aims are to:
· Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through the excellent content available on BBC Bitesize.
· Support and inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum-linked programming through BBC Teach.
· Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns, such as BBC Super Movers and BBC Micro:Bit.
Bitesize is BBC Education’s formal learning website, it helps millions of students to progress their education. We are currently looking for Researchers to help deliver online, multi-media, educational resources for 4-16 year-olds.
You can see the wide range of Bitesize curriculum content here:
• Bitesize Reception:
• Bitesize Primary:
• Bitesize Secondary:
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.