Assistant Producer, Pop Music Digital EXTEND
Content
Permanent - Full Time
GB
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 03/03/2025
THE ROLE
Job Reference: 21388 EX2324
Band: C
Salary: £27,88 - £37,000 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: Hybrid - The candidate will be located three days a week at the Mailbox in Birmingham
Intended Interview date: w/co 17/03/2025
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.
Main Responsibilities
An Assistant Producer assists in the preparation and production of content for the radio station websites and BBC Sounds in order to maximise the impact of the radio programmes and the networks. This may be content to support a show, an event, a season or a social-action initiative, and can range from writing articles and quizzes to image manipulation and photography. This involves research, planning, technical operations and audio, video, online and interactive production work.
Assistant producers work to other senior colleagues who are responsible for ensuring the programmes and content they produce complies with all relevant BBC and external (e.g. Ofcom) guidelines and legislation.
An Assistant Producer will refer up on matters of potential controversy and for editorial advice.
Are you the right candidate?
* You’ll have a passionate and lively interest in the music, programmes and digital activity on BBC pop music networks (in particular, the stations that regularly broadcast from Birmingham – Asian Network and 1Xtra), along with a working knowledge of platforms relevant to the network audiences.
* Experience of audio-editing, digital image manipulation/creation and digital video production is essential as well as experience of writing clear and concise material which may be used for briefs, scripts, or digital platforms.
* You’ll have demonstrable experience of working in a broadcast or content production environment with the ability to use IT proficiently, including a range of software packages.
* You will be familiar with research techniques and sources for the verification of the accuracy of material.
* You will also need effective planning and organising skills an ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
* This role requires the successful candidate to work autonomously. The candidate will be located three days a week at the Mailbox in Birmingham, and will be required to ensure the operability of in-studio filming equipment, sometimes at short notice and under live-broadcast timeline.
* The successful candidate will be self-starting, self-motivated and have experience of creating images and video using adobe, or similar creative software, with a working knowledge of all social-video platforms that are used by a wide range of audiences, and the skills to deliver content to those spaces in a range of swiftly evolving formats and a proven quality of copy writing for the web.
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.
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.
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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