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Assistant Producer, Pop Music Digital EXTEND

Client: BBC

Location: United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

18.02.2025

Expiry Date:

04.04.2025

Job Description:

Package Description

Job Reference: 21388 EX2324
Band: C
Salary: £27,88 - £37,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid - The candidate will be located three days a week at the Mailbox in Birmingham

Intended Interview date: w/co 17/03/2025

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact us. For any general queries, please contact us.

Job Introduction

This role is advertised as part of our Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent. We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact us. The BBC is fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers that disabled people face.

Job Role

The Assistant Producer will originate and produce excellent content. These roles will contribute creative ideas, bringing the highest quality content production skills which may involve research, technical operations, audio, online and interactive production activities.

Main Responsibilities

An Assistant Producer assists in the preparation and production of content for the radio station websites and BBC Sounds in order to maximise the impact of the radio programmes and the networks. This may be content to support a show, an event, a season or a social-action initiative, and can range from writing articles and quizzes to image manipulation and photography. This involves research, planning, technical operations and audio, video, online and interactive production work.

Assistant producers work under senior colleagues who are responsible for ensuring the programmes and content they produce complies with all relevant BBC and external guidelines and legislation.

An Assistant Producer will refer up on matters of potential controversy and for editorial advice.

Are you the right candidate?

• You’ll have a passionate and lively interest in the music, programmes and digital activity on BBC pop music networks, along with a working knowledge of platforms relevant to the network audiences.
• Experience of audio-editing, digital image manipulation/creation and digital video production is essential, as well as experience of writing clear and concise material which may be used for briefs, scripts, or digital platforms.
• You’ll have demonstrable experience of working in a broadcast or content production environment with the ability to use IT proficiently, including a range of software packages.
• You will be familiar with research techniques and sources for the verification of the accuracy of material.
• You will also need effective planning and organising skills, an ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
• This role requires the successful candidate to work autonomously. The candidate will be located three days a week at the Mailbox in Birmingham, and will be required to ensure the operability of in-studio filming equipment, sometimes at short notice and under live-broadcast timeline.
• The successful candidate will be self-starting, self-motivated and have experience of creating images and video using Adobe or similar creative software, with a working knowledge of all social-video platforms.

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. 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.

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.