BBC Hiring for Production Management Assistant at Glasgow G51 Full Time

BBC Scotland News has an exciting opportunity for a PMA to join our busy Production Support team, working on a variety of production and administrative task across a range of News output.

Main Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will be covering autocue operator shifts for Reporting Scotland, The Nine and politics programmes and offering studio floor support to the transmission teams.

Administration tasks will mainly consist of music reporting, contributor payments, travel bookings and some general forward planning tasks.

Are you the right candidate?

You should be a highly motivated individual keen to develop skills in a busy Newsroom environment and a team player who can work under your own initiative when required. You will have a friendly and efficient manner and be able to keep calm under pressure. No previous production experience is needed as full training will be given but you should be organised and IT literate and able to learn new skills quickly.

Whilst some home working may be possible, this post requires you to work a variety of shifts in PQ Glasgow with regular evening work in the studio from 2pm -10pm.

About the BBC

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 in the document attached below.

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

Package Description

Band: B

Contract type: 6 month fixed term contract/attachment

Location: Pacific Quay, Glasgow

Application process: You will be asked to fill in a diversity questionnaire which is confidential and not seen by the hiring manager. You will then be asked to:

upload your CV

complete an eligibility questionnaire

answer questions specific to the role

For roles which are open to flexible working arrangements, should you be successful, we can discuss different options. For more details on the BBC Flexible Working Policy visit https://www.vercida.com/uk/features/flexible-hybrid-working-at-the-bbc

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.

We value the benefit diversity and inclusion brings and we welcome information on any reasonable adjustment we can make to ensure you can fully participate. For example, this may be extra time for a meeting or interview, information in different format or a venue which has wheelchair access. Please contact the resourcing team [email protected] and one of our recruiters will be in touch to discuss how we can help.

The BBC D&I Plan – Diversity & Inclusion Plan – Workforce Diversity & Inclusion (bbc.co.uk)

The BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services while the coronavirus is still an issue. Until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/