Technical Producer

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Sector: Media and Publishing

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 22441
Band: C
Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 6 month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment.
Location: London with Regular travel both in the UK and abroad.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. 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 reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Introduction

BBC Media Operations is looking to increase its team of Technical Producers in the Location team. BBC 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 some sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and digital platforms. Our team are experts in their field with exceptional technical, operational and production creativity at their heart. Working closely together with our editorial colleagues, we co-create content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily.

The Location team is responsible for resourcing and supporting outside broadcasts for Radio and News, and for Production Services who supply and support kit to self-shooters. Our team work on some of the BBC's highest profile events ranging from music (Glastonbury, the Proms), to Sport (Euros, Olympics) to News (coverage of the Party Conferences, elections as well as breaking News events).

Main Responsibilities

You'll be required to provide technical production expertise for a wide range of productions, assuming the overall responsibility for the planning and realisation of sound operations for a production or event in order to realise editorial objectives.

1. Plan and organise the technical, staffing, safety and logistical requirements for outside broadcasts, including ordering and hiring of appropriate equipment.
2. Rig and de-rig outside broadcast equipment in a safe manner.
3. Set up and test communications, recording and broadcast systems.
4. Using audio craft skills, including balancing and editing, on Outside Broadcast productions, both live and recorded.
5. Developing specialist skills whilst retaining the capability to balance and control the whole range of audio productions, working on own or in teams.
6. Liaise with other organisations in order to agree and co-ordinate the provision of on-site facilities.
7. Development of new effective ways of working.

Are you the right candidate?

For this role you will be a self-starter, you should have a proven track record of being able to manage your own time and support editorial staff, as well as demonstrate an interest for radio broadcasting operations.

You should be confident working on your own on live output. You will need to work well as part of a team and you will also be relied upon to play your part in the delivery of the media aspects of productions on time and to budget.

You will have great communication skills, as well as an understanding of the BBC's audience output. You will have the ability to work to a high standard within a small skilled team and have excellent interpersonal skills. Being flexible to change will be essential in this role.

Essential skills required:

• Ability to constructively offer creative ideas in-line with relevant editorial priorities.
• Be able to mix both live and recorded radio programmes to a high quality standard for broadcast.
• Experience in visualisation for Radio and be able to operate robotic cameras and use craft specialism to assemble audio objects utilising current production tools.
• Be able to communicate well with production and other members of the team to achieve successful outcomes.
• A good understanding of IP networking and its application to media delivery.
• A good understanding of working safely in the outside broadcast 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.

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.