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Band: B
Salary: £24,039 - £31,500 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London
The closing date for application is 23:59 on Thursday 27th March 2025.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
* 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.
Job Introduction
About BBC Speech
Speech joins together Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra and speech podcasting. It is split between bases in London and Salford. This role would be based in the London office, working with Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra and the Speech Digital team.
Radio 4 is unique in the breadth and quality of its informative, educational and entertaining programming. Every day, on air and online, Radio 4 has more original content than any other broadcaster in the world. Its authoritative news and current affairs journalism is complemented by programmes exploring every aspect of life.
About The Administration Team
The Admin team sits at the heart of the London Speech team. We provide support for commissioning, finance and IT, and manage ad hoc projects, events and diaries. This role is key to the smooth running of the team, working closely with the senior Speech management team.
Main Responsibilities
BBC Speech is looking for a dynamic and engaged Team Assistant to support the team, covering a variety of tasks. You will ensure the team is able to work as effectively as possible, including handling their diaries and booking meetings. You will raise purchase orders and work with a variety of IT systems to ensure everyone has the information they need.
Specific Responsibilities
* Manage diaries for members of the senior team, as required.
* Book travel and accommodation.
* Organise meetings; potentially take minutes and follow up on actions.
* Raise purchase orders and assist with financial tracking.
* Help organise team events and socials.
* Help organise the Radio 4 commissioning round.
General Business Support For Wider Speech Staff
* Maintain our office spaces in London.
* Keep email distribution lists up to date.
* Look for opportunities to improve admin processes within the team.
* Ad hoc activities such as: booking couriers, ordering stationery & equipment, managing IT assets, collating information requests.
Are you the right candidate?
* Highly organised and effective at prioritising a wide range of tasks.
* Experience of managing multiple diaries and the schedules of senior leadership roles (Band F and above).
* Able to work with multiple key stakeholders/managers.
* Able to build good working relationships with people at all levels in different parts of the business, internal and external.
* Experience of financial management systems (e.g. Ariba, SAP).
* Experience of office software packages (in particular Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
* Strong communication skills.
* Able to spot potential issues in advance and work to resolve them.
* Able to get up to speed quickly with new tools and systems.
* Determined, resilient, enthusiastic, approachable, helpful, flexible.
* Experience of handling sensitive data, and keeping information confidential where needed.
* Ability to use own initiative with minimal supervision and deal with routine queries as they arise.
* Track record of attention to detail and accuracy.
* An interest and enthusiasm for the output of BBC Speech – particularly Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra and podcasts.
* Experience of carrying out a range of business support/team assistant activities.
Please note: we will be shortlisting based on your CV and the answer to the questions within the application form. We will not be requiring a cover letter for this role.
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. 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.
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.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Administrative
* Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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