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Package Description
Job Reference: 22841
Band: C
Salary: £29,000 - £39,000 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 and 1 x Fixed Term Contract / Attachment 03/08/25 - 02/10/26 and 1 x Fixed Term Contract / Attachment 01/09/2025 to 05/04/2026
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.
Job Introduction
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 Coordinators 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 the volume of recruitment and movement in the BBC Sport department.
Please note, for at least one of the roles, we are looking for candidates who are gallery trained or who are willing to commit to being gallery training while in post. Please confirm as part of your application if you have gallery skills or that you would be willing to complete training and shadowing to develop gallery skills while in post.
Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will provide logistical and coordination support to a production team on one or more productions and platforms, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
Reporting to a Production Manager, you'll work in partnership with editorial colleagues to deliver the outstanding, distinctive, multi-platform content that BBC Sport is renowned for, by providing creative ways to realise editorial ambitions within operational and financial constraints.
Are you the right candidate?
An interest and understanding of the variety of content produced across our sport department will be of benefit.
You will have demonstrable working knowledge of end-to-end production processes (in TV, Digital, Audio or News) and experience of delivering a range of Productions often with complex logistical requirements. You'll have good project management and planning skills with the ability to deliver projects to budget. You will use your planning and organisational skills to enable the efficient running of the production and output. You will be comfortable working with spreadsheets and other administrative tools.
You'll be comfortable with multiple requests at one time, have the ability to prioritise requests and show resilience in fast changing situations. You will be able to use your own initiative but know when to refer up. You will be required to deliver high quality production planning documents with excellent attention to detail and enjoy building relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, and enjoy working as part of a team.
It is desirable to have a knowledge of Outside Broadcasts but not essential.
For at least, one of the roles, we are looking for individuals who either have gallery skills or are willing to commit to developing gallery skills through training and shadowing while in post.
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.
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr