Senior Designer

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford, Quay House (On-site)

Salary: £45,000-£52,000 pa

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

Media Operations

Media Operations is at the heart of teams delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences.

Our team are experts in their field bringing exceptional technical, operational and production creativity to everything they do.

Media Operations manages the craft and production operations for the BBC’s news, radio, and sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, graphic design, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and online.

The team is also responsible for the management of production services, stores, some audio, fleet, and OB bases in England.

Working closely together with our news, sport, and content colleagues, we co-create all content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily.

North TV News Operations is a team of approximately 60 people who provide a range of technical and craft services to BBC News, BBC Local and Digital productions, based at MediaCityUK.

We work as a creative, multiskilled team across an exciting and wide range of output including BBC Breakfast, BBC North West Tonight and BBC News.

The team provides the gallery and studio team for BBC Breakfast every day of the year as well as regularly working across the country on location and outside broadcasts. We also output four regional programmes for North West Tonight every weekday, as well as weekend output.

Work is varied, lively and great fun.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking to recruit a Senior Designer into our design team to work on our flagship programs.

These will include BBC Breakfast, the One o’clock news and North West Tonight.

The Senior Designer will develop and deliver content, ensuring that it achieves the highest creative and editorial standards with adherence to BBC guidelines.
They will use their expertise to lead on a variety of projects and deliver to an agreed brief and on time across all platforms – they will also task manage and/or mentor more junior staff as required.

Are you the right candidate?

• You will be familiar with working in a broadcast environment on live programming often in a pressurised situation. An extensive portfolio of consistently great work demonstrating creative flair is essential, and advanced knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
• You will be comfortable working in a fast-moving creative environment, demonstrating the appropriate level of resilience, as well as being able to communicate clearly and assertively.
• You will be passionate about working on live news output and planning, thinking creatively, good time management, and taking the lead on projects.
• You will have experience of taking ideas from concept to finished product whilst driving forward creativity, and be able to talk through your design decisions with a diverse range of people and a diverse range of solutions whilst following the brand.
• You will follow the latest design trends and technology developments, and design output, putting the audience first.
• You will have a good technical understanding of TV and online production workflows is required.
• You will be willing to accept a varied shift pattern which includes overnight shifts for BBC Breakfast, an early shift for the One, and daytime shifts on North West Tonight.

A showreel of your work will be required for an interview.

About 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.