Assistant Producer, You & Yours (multi hire x 1) 1

Package Description

Job Reference: 15442

Band: C
Contract type: 1 x 6-month attachment/fixed term contract (maternity leave cover) & 1 x 14-week attachment/fixed term contract (paternity leave cover)
Location: MediaCityUK, Salford
Salary: £27,500 - £37,500 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, gym and much more.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

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Job Introduction

BBC Audio North is the single biggest supplier of BBC radio programmes and podcasts made outside of London. We love audio and make lots of it – a rich mix of content spanning multiple genres including consumer, investigations, documentaries, religion and arts for national BBC Radio, the World Service and Sounds.

Teams in BBC Audio North make a wide range of speech and music programmes and podcasts for Radio 2, 3, 4, World Service and BBC Sounds. We span several genres including consumer, religion, arts and classical music.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for an assistant producer to work on our consumer journalism programme You and Yours. However, assistant producers may be asked to work across any of the output across Audio North. You’ll work in a team with producers, reporting to an editor. Effective team-working and positivity is a must. We’re always exploring how to better exploit content across platforms (particularly BBC Sounds and social media channels) to find new audiences.

Are you the right candidate?

Are you a dynamic, self-starter with the ability to unearth compelling stories which reflect listeners’ lives? You’ll be curious about what’s going on behind the headlines and how to bring that to life for audiences. Good research and writing skills are essential and you’ll be excited about the possibilities of audio in making stories land with impact. Tell us about your digital and social media skills and how you’d use them to create a splash around your stories.

We want to build on our recent successes in tapping into the younger and more diverse audience that BBC speech programmes need to reach - hopefully that is where you come in.

Let us know what you have been up to and why you should be the next Assistant Producer in our team.

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.

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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.

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