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Package description
Job Reference: 14077
Band: D
Salary range: £43,000 - £48,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford Quay House, London Broadcasting House
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.
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 introduction
We are looking for a talented Agile Business Analyst, with a good balance of technical and communication skills. You will be working with a product manager, delivery manager, software and system engineers, user experience designers and editorial leads to understand problems and support the delivery of solutions that help shape the way live video is produced across the BBC.
Live streaming is an important part of the BBC’s digital first strategy for UK and worldwide audiences, with record breaking audiences coming to the BBC to follow live events such as Glastonbury and Wimbledon, as well as the Women’s Euros and Breaking News. We deliver services that enables content creators to quickly and easily live stream video from anywhere in the world to the BBC website, iPlayer and social platforms. We work with our own editorial development teams and content producers from across the BBC, from News to Children’s, as well as Sport and Nature, finding new ways to enable them to provide engaging video content online and reach new audiences.
We sit within the Production Workflows and Systems group, which is responsible for all of the BBC’s production tools and workflows for creating video – live and non-live, across television and online. Within the group, we have tools for shortform production, sport, news, television and more.
Interview process
Interview process
- Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions
Main responsibilities
Working on the Live & Streaming team in Production Workflows and Systems you will help shape the direction for the product set, working to the Live & Streaming Executive Product Manager.
You will translate Product vision into discovery and development tasks and fine tune user stories with engineers, designers, researchers and testers so they’re clear, accurate, actionable and measurable.
You will play a key role in helping the team deliver value quickly, mitigate risk and hit quarterly objectives by identifying priorities and planning & managing workload.
You will work with technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating idea generation, sharing knowledge and building strong working relationships around a shared set of objectives.
You will be responsible for analysing data about product usage, identifying behaviours and insights to support decisions and recommendations.
You will have the opportunity to work across other product teams to solve common production and audience needs by developing shared solutions.
Are you the right candidate
We don’t expect anyone to have experience of all the skills, this gives an example of the kind of work we do. If you’re great and want to develop, we want you!
- Knowledge of business and data analysis tools and techniques such as: user story mapping, writing acceptance criteria, analysing audience and system data, business process mapping, facilitating workshops and user research.
- Experience working collaboratively within an agile multi-disciplinary team delivering user-focused digital products and services, using Agile methodology.
- Experience of working on media and/or streaming production workflows would be seen as a bonus.
- Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather product requirements.
- Experience of working with analytics software to gather, analyse and report usage data and other relevant metrics.
- Ability to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts and be able to explore them systematically.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, able to juggle competing priorities and take the appropriate course of action.
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.
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.
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.
