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Production Management Assistant, BBC Sport, Extend
Production Management
Permanent - Full Time
Salford, GB, M50 2QH
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 21st April 2025
THE ROLE
Job Reference: 22840
Band: B
Salary: £24,800 - £34,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Continuing
Location: Office Base is MediaCity, Salford. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office/location working with home working.
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, gym and much more.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
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. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
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.
The BBC is fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workforce that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
From the World Cups to the Olympics, whether it’s Premier League football, the FA Cups, Wimbledon or International Cricket, BBC Sport is at the heart of the world’s major sporting events. Our teams help make sure that every day, throughout the year our audiences are served with the sporting stories that matter as well as providing world-class coverage of the events themselves. The unrivalled reach of our services, our extensive cross-platform offer and the strength of our brand & reputation are what distinguishes BBC Sport from the chasing pack.
We are looking to recruit Production Management Assistants to work on numerous sports and output in our BBC Sport production management team. Depending on the production and sport, this can include working across TV Live output, TV and Digital Highlights output, Radio output and podcasts, Digital content including social media, and our digital and news journalism.
Please note, there could be further opportunities linked to this hiring process due to the volume of recruitment and movement in the BBC Sport department.
This is a hybrid role with some office and some home-based days, plus the potential for location work also. The office base is MediaCity, Salford and the successful candidate will balance office/location with home working.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting to a Production Manager, the successful candidate will provide logistical and administration support to a production team on one or more productions and platforms, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
You'll work in partnership with production co-ordinators and other production management assistants, as well as editorial colleagues, to assist administratively in accordance with the demands of an ever-changing broadcasting environment.
The role will be predominantly office-based but depending on the production may involve studio or location work. The Production Management Assistant may be expected to work some weekends depending on the sporting events calendar. In some PMA roles, regular weekend working will be required.
The successful candidate must be able to work well on their own initiative and be confident about when to refer up. The Production Management Assistant will be liaising with a wide range of people involved in the production and must be able to problem solve and communicate effectively. There may be an element of diary management which will involve having good communication skills and being able to work well with a wide cross-section of people. They must be able to problem solve and communicate effectively.
Attention to detail is a must in the production management assistant role as you will be delivering high-quality production planning documents. The successful candidate could be working with a variety of detailed ongoing continuous output schedules, arranging complex travel and logistical requirements for a production team, helping with facility & technical staffing bookings, logging all costs/spend accurately, assisting with Post Production Paperwork and managing high volumes of personal and sensitive data.
From a sustainability point of view, the role will involve encouraging best practice on energy use within the team and reporting on our Carbon emissions via the Albert portal.
Are you the right candidate?
An interest and understanding of the variety of content produced across BBC Sport will be of benefit. You will have a high attention to detail, the ability to prioritise and multi-task. Diary management and experience of working within large teams would also be beneficial. You will have experience of working in production (across TV, Radio, Digital or News). We are currently working to a hybrid working model where you would be expected to be based in the Salford office at least two to three days a week in addition to any work needed on location.
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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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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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; 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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