Package Description
Job ref: 21653
Band: C
Contract details: 1x FTC/attachment role starting 1 April 2025 - 27 March 2026
Location: Media City, Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working.
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 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 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 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 micro:bit –the next gen and 500 Words.
Main Responsibilities
BBC Bitesize is looking for an Assistant Producer to support the Producers in driving and delivering Bitesize Futures; extending the Bitesize content offer to a personalised, adaptive journey through existing GCSE Bitesize content; manage the creation, review and uploading of question content; support the publishing and promoting of content for the product, ensuring it has maximum reach and impact.
As part of the Education Product Development team you will work closely with colleagues in Product Group and teams across the nations, to pilot and assess new content and deliver growth in audience on the web and Bitesize app.
Are you the right candidate?
• Practical experience of editorial product development of educational mobile experiences for 14-16 year-olds
• Experience of creating digital micro learning content for domestic and international audiences including experience of working with, briefing and managing educational consultants.
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience of editing and creating content in both iSite and XML.
• An ability to manage complicated digital educational projects to schedule and budget
• Experience of working to targets to deliver audience growth and demonstrable experience of assessing and using audience data to inform editorial decision making.
• A demonstrable passion, commitment and knowledge of BBC Education’s audience output and interactive media content.
• Experience of working with and influencing colleagues to share best practice and training to deliver significant digital change.
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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours .
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.