Location: Office Base is Salford. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office/location 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.
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.
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BBC Sport are looking for creative and dynamic Assistant Producers to work across our output in BBC Sport Productions.
We want BBC Sport’s output to reflect and understand the audiences we serve - for example, the different geographical regions of the UK and the experience of people from underrepresented groups. We would therefore encourage applications from individuals with skills or experience that can help contribute towards ensuring we maximise the diversity of our coverage and content.
Main Responsibilities
Assistant Producers contribute to the output by working as part of production teams across BBC Sport. You will be required to work across various platforms and support our content teams. Tasks will include working on live action and highlights programmes, playing a full part in all aspects of the VT operation. Outputting content with our digital live team, and supporting our digital teams with content for our social platforms.
You will be passionate about a range of sports, know what makes a good story and relish the challenge of producing creative and ambitious content within budget.
You will be confident producing shoots, directing cameras, talent and contributors, as well as taking responsibility for planning shoots and edits for a wide range of output. A good understanding of the editorial and production requirements of a live OB is also essential.
You will be able to identify and create exciting digital video content and you will pitch content ideas and develop formats that can be used across teams and platforms – from live streams, linear TV, social platforms and digital shortform content to longer form features.
You’ll be flexible, positive, collaborative, and a confident communicator. You will use data insights to shape your ideas, and share your skills, knowledge and understanding with other teams in BBC Sport. The ideal candidate will be keen to learn and develop new skills with a keen interest to work collaboratively and share ideas.
Our extensive rights portfolio means that we cover some of the biggest events in sport. In this job, you‘ll need to know your sport, and have sound editorial judgement to spot the stories and lines that matter and will engage audiences.
Are you the right candidate?
This role requires significant experience in TV Sport Production. We are looking for individuals with a flair for filmmaking and experience of sport outside broadcasts, fast turn-around programmes, live gallery skills and post production knowledge are essential. You’ll need to be bursting with creative ideas and treatments that reflect the wide audience the BBC needs to reach.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to conduct in-depth research, build relationships externally and internally as well as contributing creatively to the post-production process. A keen interest in developing skills such as self-shooting and video editing and strong understanding of what content works well on digital platforms is crucial.
They will have a genuine enthusiasm and interest in sport, the stories and personalities within it, and a good understanding of what stories and moments captivate audiences. You will be an excellent communicator, able to collaborate with other teams within BBC Sport and beyond in order to deliver the best outcomes, and be comfortable working alongside high-profile talent.
You'll be an excellent problem-solver, able to work around challenges and obstacles. You will also on occasion need to be available to work at weekends to support our events, programming and output.
This is not an entry level role, we're looking for candidates with experience within the area, please review the criteria for the role before applying.
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.
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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