Assistant Content Producer - Bbc Homepage

Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: 12 month Fixed term Contract/ Attachment
Location: BBC Salford, Bridge House
Salary: £26,710 - £32,000 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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work/ life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) 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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Job Purpose
The Assistant Content Producer will assist in the preparation and production of curations on bbc.co.uk.
The successful candidate will contribute creative ideas and bring the highest quality content production skills, including picture research, selecting and curation content on a variety of topics including news and sport, writing promotional copy, and other digital production activities.
Main Responsibilities

• To support the Content Producer and Senior Content Producer in the production of bbc.co.uk
• To work effectively with other departments to gather relevant materials for proactive production of time-sensitive content.
• Influencing, negotiating and communicating effectively both within the team and with stakeholders.
• To ensure all content is of a first class standard and accurate - in keeping with audience needs and expectations.
• To ensure that output complies with BBC editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards and that BBC Health and Safety policy isa observed.
• To be technically proficient to the requirements of the role or to show evidence of similar skills and ability to learn.
• To participate in projects that support the BBC Homepage under the direction of Content Producer and Senior Content Producers including the use of planning and organisational skills.
• Multi-tasking and prioritisation, working to deadlines.
• Understanding when to escalate.
• To undertake administrative duties relevant to recording and monitoring fairness, balance, and copyright related issues.

Are you the right candidate?

• A knowledge of BBC editorial guidelines and other compliance policies, or has the desire to glean this knowledge quickly.
• Understanding of the importance of the BBC's values in accuracy and impartiality.
• Experience of creating first class content
• Experience of writing clear and concise material.
• Ability to use IT proficiently.
• Ability to develop creative ideas.
• Ability to problem solve and suggestive effective

Job Impact
Decision making The Assistant Producer may report to various roles, depending on the area of which they are working in, but can range from a Producer to an Executive Producer. The job holder will receive an appropriate level of editorial guidance and direction. Scope The role of the Assistant Producer is to assist the Producer/Executive Producer or similar to create content for a specific area of interest, and to supervise different stages of the production process using broad production skills gained with experience in a production environment.
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.