Assistant Producer (YouTube) - BBC Children's & Education

ENGINEERINGUK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

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Assistant Producer (YouTube) - BBC Children's & Education

Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Assistant
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 22687
Band: C
Contract type: x2 Fixed Term Contract/Attachment for 6 months, starting June 1st.
Location: Salford (Home/Office - Hybrid)
Salary: £27,800- £37,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

We're looking for creative and strategically minded YouTube Assistant Producers to join our YouTube team within the BBC Children's and Education department. This is an exciting opportunity to craft engaging content and develop strategies that amplify our BBC Children's brands and campaigns to preschool and young audiences on the world's biggest video platform.

Our team works across the full range of our young audiences offering, from preschool CBeebies featuring talent and brands such as Andy Day, Bluey, Hey Duggee, Numberblocks up to way up to the likes of Horrible Histories, Operation Ouch, Shaun The Sheep, BBC Newsround and Bitesize GCSE.

You will be part of a team that is central to communicating our brand values, delivering our public service, driving reach and growth and supporting the launch of BBC programmes, services and initiatives across our BBC Children's and Education YouTube channels.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and produce original engaging video content and content briefs for BBC Children's and Education YT channels, aligning with brand tone, editorial values and ensuring it is compliant for young audiences - considering Preschool / School Aged / GCSE student audiences.
• Deliver content strategies focused around YT product features in particular Live Streaming, as well as Podcasts and Shorts etc.
• Collaborate with brand owners, marketing and social media teams to develop high impact promotional content plans that sit cohesively within multiplatform brand campaign strategies.
• Use analytics data and research to monitor content performance, stay on top of emerging trends and platform updates, providing actionable insights to improve performance and innovate our output.
• Support management of operations of multiple YouTube channels, including scheduling, live streaming, optimisation and performance tracking.
• Produce compelling thumbnails, titles and metadata to drive discoverability and audience retention.

Are you the right candidate?

• A creative storyteller with a strong portfolio of digital video content, particularly on YouTube.
• Deeply passionate and knowledgeable about preschool and children's audiences, their content needs and behaviour.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite - especially Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects.
• Deeply knowledgeable about YouTube products and features, it's algorithm, SEO best practices and analytics tools.
• Able to interpret data and audience research and translate it into actionable, creative and strategic decisions.
• Highly organised, self-motivated and comfortable working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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.

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