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Package Description
Band: D
Salary Range: 37,661 – 46,000
Contract type: permanent
Location: Birmingham - The Mailbox
Closing Date: 8th April 2024
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.
Introduction
Media Operations is one of two main departments within the Technology & Media Operations Group. Media Operations is at the heart of teams delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences. Comprising around nine hundred people, it manages the craft and production operations for the BBC’s news, radio, and sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and online. Our team are experts in their field with exceptional technical, operational and production creativity at their heart.
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. The team is also responsible for the management of production services, stores, and some audio, fleet vehicles and OB bases in England.
Interview process
- One stage interview process of around 45 minutes via Teams
- *Interviews commencing the week starting 19th of April (*subject to panel member availability)
Main Responsibilities
As a Senior Technical Producer for the Popular Music radio networks in the Media Operations team you will be key to ensuring our live and pre-recorded programmes make it to the audience. The role will support production teams across internal and external suppliers in delivering world class programming, providing technical production expertise for a wide range of situations including the most complicated and demanding productions in order to realise editorial ambitions.
You will relish working in a fast-paced environment and be able to prioritise tasks quickly to ensure the continuity of the services we support. Tasks will range from devising workflows, maintaining technical production systems/kit and driving broadcast desks to put outside broadcasts to air through to delivering training, scheduling pre-recorded programmes in Dira Autoplayer and taking responsibility for ad hoc projects.
We would look for you to be an active participant in fostering a learning culture throughout Popular Music which promotes best practice and technical excellence. You will be resilient, highly motivated and be able to remain calm under pressure. You will have a passion for the editorial content of the Popular Music services and be a team player as well as being able to work on your own.
Whilst the job is in the main Mon-Fri work pattern, you’ll occasionally work late/early shifts and weekends and bank holidays as determined by the editorial demands of the Popular Music services.
If you have an enthusiasm for delivering high quality produced content to millions of listeners along with a passion for operational work in a live, fast-paced environment then we’d like to hear from you.
Are you the right candidate?
We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong testing mindset.
- Extensive operational experience and knowledge of production processes and the technical requirements needed to deliver programmes on the required platforms including experience of using Dira software, automation and playout
- Experience and understanding of production requirements on location at outside broadcasts
- Extensive knowledge and experience of radio studios and/or outside broadcast operations, ideally including having proven experience with driving Studer and/or DHD broadcast desks
- Comprehensive knowledge of safety regulations and an ability to operate to and communicate safe working practices in the workplace and on outside broadcasts
- Proven experience in being able to use skills creatively to devise solutions to complex technical problems in live broadcast situations
- Excellent aural judgement
- Demonstrable knowledge of the output of the Popular Music radio services
- Ability to manage resources within financial and technical constraints
For any queries on this role, please contact Tony Wood: tony.wood@bbc.co.uk
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.
