BBC Hiring for Assistant Producer – BBC Education – Development Job at Salford, North West England, England , UK Full Time

Are you passionate about the role BBC education can play in our audiences lives?

BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.

Our aims are to:

• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize

• Support & inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming; through BBC Teach;

• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns such as BBC micro:bit, Regenerators and Tiny Happy People.

One of the 12 BBC charter commitments is to ‘Transform our education offer’. BBC Education is the driving force behind this commitment.

As an Assistant Producer on the Development team you will play a central role in the development of ideas for campaigns

You will work with colleagues across the department and wider BBC as well as external partners to develop effective and engaging campaigns for our education audiences.

Main Responsibilities

The BBC Education Campaigns development team is looking for an Assistant Producer for 6 months to help work on our current slate of exciting development projects.

Several projects are in a crucial phase of development where the AP will have opportunities to get hands on and help shape the project(s) within a small team. There are several partnerships with other parts of the BBC which the AP will help work on by attending brainstorms, generating content ideas and forward planning.

The AP will also be responsible for helping us shape the future slate of BBC Education campaigns and will be responsible for working up ideas, researching, pitching and facilitating workshops with colleagues in and out of the BBC.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal person will have experience at AP level in broadcast or online content production and/or face to face events as well as experience of working with children and schools. Some experience of education, children’s / entertainment content creation, developing new ideas for children/entertainment and writing scripts / treatments would be beneficial. They will love generating and researching new ideas. They will be tenacious, creative with excellent organisational skills and an ability to work alone as well as part of a team.

• A demonstrable ability to develop creative ideas, which engage diverse, young under 16 year old audiences in a demanding creative environment.
• A proven track record of showing initiative on projects as part of a team
• Ideas about how to make an impactful campaign across multiple platforms with excellent research skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with partners effectively both internally and/or externally

About the BBC

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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.

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Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: 1x 6 months Fixed Term Contract
Location: MediaCityUK, Salford.

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.