Production Co-ordinators (BBC Audio), Bristol

Package Description

Vacancy Ref: 15134

Band: B
Contract type: 1 x 6-month fixed term contract/attachment and 1 x 10-month fixed term contract/attachment
Location: Office base is Bristol. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working. The candidate should expect regular travel around the UK on Fridays when working on Any Questions?.

Salary: £25,609 - £35,961 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

NB: Whilst these 2 roles are based in Bristol, we are also advertising another fixed term contract/attachment within the hub, with our Science team in our Cardiff office. Further details and the job application can be found here:https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job-invite/15083/?isInternalUser=true
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.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction

BBC AUDIO WALES AND WEST OF ENGLAND:

This is a new department within BBC Audio bringing together network radio production teams in Cardiff and Bristol. Staff have opportunities for collaborating, developing ideas and their careers and access to a wide range of output across science, factual, rural affairs, food, documentaries, music and drama for all BBC UK Radio networks, the World Service and BBC Sounds.

BBC Audio has around 500 editorial staff who create and deliver more than 100 hours of original audio every day. Our podcasts and radio programmes are heard across the UK and around the world and we work with some of the biggest names in music, entertainment and journalism. We collaborate with world class partners to deliver social value. This is just a selection of the 22,500 programmes we work on every year, please click here.

Main Responsibilities

The Production Co-ordinator provides logistical and co-ordination support to the production team on one or more productions, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
As a Production Co-ordinator you will:

• Work in partnership with editorial colleagues to deliver outstanding, distinctive, multiplatform content by providing the ways to realise editorial ambitions within operational and financial constraints
• Compile pre and post production paperwork, as well as any other programme metadata required
• Clear copyright material for all platforms
• Support both the prep and TX of live programmes
• Book and procure resources required to deliver the programmes
• Provide administrative support for the production office
• Negotiate artist and contributor fees
• As part of these roles you’ll be working on Any Questions?, which is BBC Radio 4’s weekly topical debate programme, reaching 1.4m listeners each week. You will be crucial to planning and organising the logistics for up to 50 outside broadcasts each year.

Please contact Eleri Llian Rees (eleri.rees@bbc.co.uk) if you have any queries regarding these roles.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven track record of playing a co-ordinating role within a production team
• Demonstrable experience working on radio productions (podcasts, live programmes and weekly outside broadcasts desirable)
• Experience of delivering a range of/parts of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions
• Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with a level of technical awareness
• Excellent organisational and planning skills; able to schedule and prioritise people and activities to meet operational deadlines
• Able to use and advise on production systems and adopt new technologies on productions. Knowledge of digital audio workstations, financial & purchasing systems as well as travel & delivery and archiving platforms advantageous
• Know how to identify and source suitable resources and negotiate deals within given parameters
• Business and finance skills; able to prepare, manage and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets
• Knowledge of the BBC and the wider industry
• Demonstrable knowledge of, and interest in, politics
Proven ability to deal with high profile guests

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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