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Production Management Assistants, News & Current Affairs (Job Ref: 18707)BBC
5 days ago
  • LevelJunior
  • ProfessionsProduction Assistant, Administrator, Account Manager
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Closing Date: 04-Oct-2024

THE ROLE
Job Introduction
BBC News and Current Affairs are recruiting Production Management Assistants (London) to join the team and work across world class and high profile Long Form Documentaries and Investigations,  Outside Broadcasts and audio programmes.  Some of our key programmes include Long Form Audio (get some names) and Podcasts such as Newscast, Americast and Ukrainecast; Long Form Documentaries & Strands such as Panorama, Africa Eye, Arabic Investigations and BBC 2 and BBC 3 documentaries.
Main Responsibilities
The Production Management Assistant is an important role, providing organisational and logistical assistance to the production team/s – ensuring the smooth and efficient running of productions.  This includes production team travel arrangements, procurement, payments, facilities and locations bookings, copyright clearance and completing post production paperwork as well as monitoring production spend and equipment and dealing with various IT requests.
Are you the right candidate?
These are busy and varied roles and would suit those who are adaptable self-starters as well as:
  • Recent experience of working in TV documentaries or investigative current affairs programmes
  • Strong interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting demands and work collaboratively across a diverse team
  • Demonstrates an understanding of TV, Audio and/or Digital Production processes and associated Equipment/Tech and payment systems
  • Knowledge of longform post production deliverables and paperwork on Silvermouse and Proteus
  • Experience of tracking spend and logging costs using cost monitors.
Package Description
Job Ref: 18707
Band: B
Base: Hybrid - London (London Broadcasting House)
Contracts:  1 x Continuing and 1 x Fixed Term Contract to October 2025
Salary: Up to £28,800 + London Weighting : 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 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.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
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.

Skills Required

  • Digital Production
  • Post Production
  • Production Management

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