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Job Band
Band: C
Contract type: 5 month Fixed Term Contract starting 20th May 2024
Location: BBC London
Salary: £33,000 - £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We are expecting to hold interviews virtually week commencing week commencing 29th April 2024.
Please refer to the Attachment Policy with any questions, you must have been in your current role for 12 months and have your Manager's approval before applying. This attachment requires experience within the Broadcast & End User Technology team.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
- 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
- Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
- Employee assistance and well-being programmes
- Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
We are interested in candidates currently operating at the advertised level but are also keen to help develop careers by offering opportunities where this is a step up based on current position.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject
Job Purpose
We are looking for Assistant Technical Producers to join BBC Audio Technical Production in London over the busy summer period. Technical producers have extensive craft audio experience and work on live and recorded speech and music, planning and delivering outside broadcasts and in broadcast studios in W1 and Maida Vale. You will work on a range of live and recorded studio work and editing sessions for BBC national radio stations. An interest in and passion for music and sound engineering skills and technology are a prerequisite for the role. Successful candidates will be working across all national music stations.
Technical Production is part of BBC Audio which is part of BBC Content. There are operational teams in London, Bristol, Birmingham and Salford. The majority of the audio for the national BBC Radio stations is handled by BBC Audio Technical Production at some stage in the journey to air.
BBC Audio Technical Production covers a diverse range of events including Glastonbury, golf, The Proms, comedy performance, opera, tennis tournaments and concerts, as well as complex one-off events at home and abroad; State Events, Paralympics and the Olympics are all delivered by staff from Operations. We produce a large amount of studio based output for our Radio Networks. We also manage and run events in the BBC Radio Theatre and we have a suite of specialist music studios at Maida Vale
Main Responsibilities
Assistant Technical Producers are expected to have the required knowledge and experience to undertake all the duties as described in the job description, working in radio studios, workshops, suitably equipped office areas and where appropriate on outside broadcasts. You’ll be required to balance and control radio shows and be confident working on your own in a live studio You will need to work well as part of a team and you will also be relied upon to play your part in the delivery of the audio aspects of productions on time and to budget.
Are you the right candidate?
To be successful in this role, the ideal candidates will demonstrate they have well-developed craft skills.
You should demonstrate an enthusiastic interest in the professional audio field and show that you keep pace with new developments.
You will also need to demonstrate you have good communication skills and experience of managing relationships both within the team and outside.
You should have good planning and organising skills, and demonstrate a flexible approach to work.
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 in the document attached below.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
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.
