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Scheduling Assistant
Administrative Services
Fixed Term - Full Time
GB
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 18/4/2025
THE ROLE
Job Reference: 22649
Band: B
Salary: £25,400 - £30,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment until 31st March 2026
Location: Office Base is Media City – Salford
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.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
The BBC is the leading Children's broadcaster in the UK. We are proud of the award winning content we make across all platforms – television, online, radio, apps, YouTube, social media and more. BBC Children's is committed to offering the best cross-platform and on-demand service for all UK children, providing a trusted environment which is enriching, enabling and relevant to the under 16's. Our content seeks to entertain, inform and empower children, adding real value to their lives.
The Scheduling Assistant reporting into the Scheduling Manager, is responsible for the administration associated with the publication and preparation for playout of CBBC and CBeebies TV, Radio or iPlayer schedules. They may be required to rotate across platforms according to business need and to cover for Scheduling Co-ordinators during leave/sickness.
Main Responsibilities
1. Provide support to the Children’s Scheduling Team in producing, administering and communicating the most strategic, creative and competitive schedules transmitted across all children’s platforms.
2. Input and maintain information in systems and databases accurately and efficiently, to prepare schedules for playout and check large volumes of information.
Requirements
We are looking for an organised individual with a high attention to detail. You will need to be proficient at using systems, preferably Broadcast Scheduling Systems; however, any previous database work will be fine. A good working knowledge of Excel and Word is also required. You will need to ensure you can work to a process and to set deadlines. Knowledge of Children’s TV content is desirable, but not essential.
About the BBC
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. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
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.
BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.
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