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Band: C
Contract type: 12 month FTC
Location: Bristol Broadcasting House
This is a Part Time role: 4 days/27 hour per week
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 Introduction
BBC Food is looking for an audience-focused, digital-first Assistant Producer with great social media productions skills and experience, a solid knowledge of cooking and food culture and top organisational skills to join a small, friendly team in beautiful Bristol.
At BBC Food we manage the recipe output of the BBC's programmes and run the social media channels to promote them. We inform and educate a mainstream audience through articles and how-to videos on topics of nutrition, budgeting, cooking skills and sustainability. As part of BBC Education it's our public service mission to teach our audiences about all aspects of eating well - how to cook and how to choose what to cook.
Working within a team of food specialists, you'll be rigorously checking recipes - both in text and video format - to ensure they're crystal clear and foolproof. You'll be finding new ways to present rock-solid content that engages audiences and cuts through the noise. You'll be working with teams inside and outside the BBC to generate the best ideas and see them through to delivery.
Main Responsibilities
Day-to-day work will involve generating ideas for recipes, videos and content strands in line with editorial strategy - with specific understanding of what works on social media. To deliver on those ideas you'll be editing and/or proofing recipes - ensuring correct conversion to house style, interrogating any missing or inconsistent information, ensuring clarity and correctness in the copy. You'll be planning, writing and editing engaging social media copy alongside a/v content and publishing it to the right platform to connect our recipes with their target audience.
Within a nimble, multi-disciplinary team you'll be delivering to tight deadlines and changing requirements while maintaining the highest editorial standards, checking and reporting that all content has appropriate clearances, sign-off and compliance checks. You'll be working with internal and external stakeholders on the marketing and promotion of content. You'll be learning from the performance of content and stats to shape new ideas.
Are you the right candidate?
You are the right person if you have:
- Proven interest in and knowledge of food and cookery, with proven experience in editing, proofreading and publishing recipes
- Great hands-on knowledge of different social media platforms and how to implement social strategies for each, in line with BBC Food's goals
- Strong picture editing skills and knowledge of Photoshop
- A clear understanding of the needs and profile of the BBC Food audience and ability to translate this into compelling content ideas
- Effective planning and organisational skills with the ability to deliver on several areas of work at a time
- Strong editorial judgement, accuracy, and editorial sensitivity with understanding of current UK food culture and its diversity
- Strong digital literacy, with experience of using web publishing and editing tools and knowledge of SEO
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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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.
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