Package Description
Job Reference: 22292
Band: C
Salary: Up to £42,000. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 12 months Attachment / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Location: Office Base is Salford - Quay House
Closing Date: 13th of April
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, and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
Introduction
BBC MediaOperations is at the heart of teams delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences. Comprising around nine hundred people, it manages the craft and production operations for the BBC's news, radio, and some sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and digital platforms. Our team are experts in their field with exceptional technical, operational, and production creativity at their heart. Collaborating closely with our editorial colleagues, we co-create content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily.
Main Responsibilities
The Senior Resource Scheduler will work closely with their Planning and Delivery Operations Manager and, depending on the area, alongside other Senior Resource Schedulers and/or Resource Schedulers. You will help support the other Resource Schedulers in your area, helping with My Conversations, giving relevant training, and managing meetings to plan and maintain working patterns and allocations to cover operational and broadcast needs. Using your knowledge of BBC Policies and the operation, you will ensure that contracted hours are maintained for the team against programme requirements. You will make sure that other scheduling tasks are conducted to a high standard, including reporting sickness, cost recovery, overtime, booking Freelancers, and booking studio time and other resources. You will have responsibility for managing timesheet processes and team admin duties and working closely with the Operations Managers, Technical Managers, Craft teams, and Editorial teams you will help plan the teams working across planned events, scheduled output, and breaking stories.
You will work collaboratively with the other Senior Resource schedulers and the rest of the Planning and Delivery team in Media Operations to ensure that bookings and requests are assessed and planned across the departments effectively and that requirement, head count, and cost recovery workflows are understood and administered accordingly.
Are you the right candidate?
You will have hands-on experience of scheduling systems and allocating teams within a shift-based environment, ideally broadcasting, and of balancing the needs of the business and operation against the requests of the scheduled teams and the BBC's policies and other regulations. You will have great administrative experience and a good eye for detail. You will be experienced in managing and prioritising your tasks according to the priorities of the area in collaboration with the rest of your scheduling team and the Planning and Delivery Ops Manager. You will be familiar with adopting new workflows and business processes and supporting others with this. You will be a great communicator, capable of delivering information in an accessible way, to a range of people at all levels. You will be able to work pragmatically and independently, resolving issues and finding solutions in a creative and timely manner and to support others in this.
This is a Hybrid role with an expectation that you will come into the building at least twice a week and, depending on business requirements, more often, particularly for any initial training or development needs and according to the operational needs of the department.
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr