Assistant Content Producer (EastEnders)

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Package Description

Job Reference: 23120

Contract: 12 Months FTC / Attachment (the start date for this role would be mid-May 2025)

Band: C

Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is BBC Elstree, London

Please note: Interviews will be taking place during the week commencing 28th of April 2025

About BBC Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Casualty, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.

About Drama Productions

BBC Studios Drama Productions sits at the heart of the UK as our slate of award-winning soaps and dramas continue to bring audiences together week after week.

EastEnders, Casualty, River City and Pobol y Cwm remain a constant source of gripping entertainment, with addictive storylines and loveable characters year on year; as well as award-winning crime drama Silent Witness and our fabulous cosy crime shows Father Brown, and Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Detectives.

At BBC Studios Drama Productions, we're passionate about developing and nurturing a creative and diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on providing some of the most supportive, hands-on editorial and production training opportunities across the whole of the UK.

The Role

Are you an experienced and social-savvy Assistant Producer with a passion for turning content into creative, impactful and innovative posts on our sought after social media platforms?

Using creative design film and video skills to produce fast-turnaround edits and short form video content, the successful candidate will be required to shoot and edit video content for our social media, ensuring to make the correct impact with young audiences, with video output largely revolving around short form and ultra-short-form mediums.

You'll need to live and breathe social media, constantly treading a fine line between informing and entertaining, so being required to recognise when to do both, while always maintaining our high editorial standards is essential, as well as knowing your memes, online references and your way around Adobe Creative suite, with Photoshop and Premier being the key tools.

You will be required to pitch your own ideas around stories and successfully tap into what our audience wants to consume, so a keen interest in Drama, especially EastEnders is very beneficial.

The successful candidate will need to be able to work quickly and under pressure, often moving from idea generation to final design in the space of an hour or two, with a requirement on occasion to work within a team on the larger digital commissions, such as EastEnders Revealed.

What does it take?

We are looking for candidates with experience within the area, so to be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following:

1. Experience of shooting and editing video content for social media
2. Proven knowledge of using Adobe Creative Suite, Sony FX3 and Sony FX6
3. Experience of working with talent
4. An excellent knowledge of social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok
5. Experience in creating video output largely revolving around short form and ultra-short-form mediums
6. The ability to recognise when working in social media between informing and entertaining
7. A keen interest and knowledge in Drama, especially EastEnders

Life at BBC Studios

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.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.

What will you gain from working at BBC Studios

1. We offer a competitive salary package
2. 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
3. Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
4. A defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%; and life assurance (at 4 times annual salary), eligibility for discounted dental, health care, gym and much more through salary sacrifice
5. Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation

Next Steps

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

To be considered for this role you will need to be at least 18 years of age at the commencement of your employment.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.