Business Coordinators, (Network News), News Group Operations Support (Job Ref: 20740)

Business Coordinators, (Network News), News Group Operations Support (Job Ref: 20740)

Administrative Services

Permanent - Full Time

Location: London, GB, W1A 1AA and Salford, GB, M50 2QH

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 05/01/2025

THE ROLE

Working in the Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to support the business and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365. The two new Business Co-ordinator roles will partner with a range of editorial teams based across the UK and fulfil administrative and secretariat duties for committees across the wider News Division.

Main Responsibilities

The Business Co-ordinators will partner closely with a range of News Content teams to support key business management activities including on-boarding administration, raising purchase orders and IT requests, collating, analysing and reporting specific Management Information (MI), including budget and headcount, as well as supporting the business with the delivery of strategic projects.

These roles will also provide a range of business management services to editorial and operational teams to enable the business unit to achieve its objectives. The co-ordinators will work with senior leaders across News to ensure the efficient and effective operation of decision-making and oversight groups across News, organising meetings, co-ordinating papers, taking minutes and recording decisions.

The immediate priority will be to support establishing and embedding a new customer-focused support model and ways of working with editorial teams newly under the Business Management umbrella and with those undergoing significant change. Ongoing, you will also work with the Business Partner and Business Advisor to ensure that the business management services remain fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving customer and business needs.

Are you the right Candidate?

• Demonstrable experience of providing administrative support in a business unit of similar complexity across a range of teams, ideally with knowledge and experience of corporate governance and the administration of decision-making and oversight groups.
• Highly organised with a flexible and proactive approach and an ability to work with limited supervision and to co-ordinate a busy workload with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines.
• High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing and collating complex and confidential information.
• Ability to handle and analyse large amounts of data to produce MI data reports in a range of formats, ensuring deadlines are met and information provided is complete, accurate and timely.
• Strong IT skills with solid experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preferably of other specialist reporting and business management tools.
• Experience in building and maintaining constructive working relationships with individuals across a range of teams and professional support functions.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and to target the content to the audience.

Package Description

Band: C

Contract: 2 x Continuing (perm) roles

Base: 1 x London & 1 x Salford (These are hybrid roles with an expectation that you will work a minimum of 3 days a week in the office).

Salary: £28,500 - £35,500 p.a. depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

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, gym and much more.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Interviews are expected to take place mid January 2025.

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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.