08 Oct
BBC
Great Britain
Job description
Package Description
ASSISTANT PRODUCER FREELANCE POOL - BBC ASIAN NETWORK MUSIC TEAM
Ref. 19181
Location : The Mailbox, Birmingham
Contracts : All opportunities offered, as a result of appointment to this talent pool, will be on a Freelance PAYE basis.
Appointment to the Talent Pool will not entitle candidates to a permanent contract in the BBC, those will have to be applied for in the normal way, and neither does it guarantee work.
If you already have a current staff contract with the BBC (continuing or fixed-term), you won’t be eligible to apply.
Any work offered with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS :
To apply for this pool,
please email your CV directly to : AN Pop Music Casuals
Job Introduction
BBC Asian Network is the UK’s biggest Asian multi-platform radio station. It’s also recognised as the best Radio Station in the UK, with an ARIA award in 2024.
We champion and celebrate young British Asians with a distinctive mix of music and speech, offering the best in new music, events, news, current affairs and everything that matters to our audience.
With over a million followers across our social platforms, we are the leading voice in British-Asian culture.
Our teams reflect the lives and interests of British-Asians and we play the best in music from Bollywood to RnB, UK Asian Rap to Old Skool Bhangra, to name just a few.
We provide support for British Asian and international artists via our extensive multi-platform approach.
The Assistant Producer position is a multi-skilled role and manages the playlisting and curation for a number of Asian Network shows, as well as wider playlist and music team duties.
The successful applicant will be expected to contribute creative ideas and bring high quality content production skills involving research, technical operations, audio, online and interactive production activities.
Main Responsibilities
- To create music playlists for Asian Network shows using Music Master
- To ensure all content is of a first class standard : thoroughly researched and accurate, and aligned with audience needs and expectations
- To be technically proficient to the requirements the role and to use a variety of specialist production skills in a multi-skilled environment e.
g. editing / using playlist creation software (music master)
- To deliver playlists and content to deadline in a busy production environment
- To work effectively with other departments, suppliers, partners and talent (internal and external),
ensuring the BBC maintains excellent relationships throughout e.
g music labels and artists
- To ensure that output complies with BBC editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards, and that the BBC Health and Safety policies are observed
- To ensure BBC output reflects the needs of our audiences and an understand of the culture nuances for the BBC Asian Network audiences
Are you the right candidate?
- An understanding, passion and knowledge of a wide range of music genres featured on the BBC Asian Network and an instinctive understanding and appreciation of modern youth culture and cultural trends
- A creative self-starter with initiative, tenacity and the ability to see how their work fits in with the wider needs of department;
able to bring a fresh new approach and bring out creative ideas in others
- Ability to develop creative ideas that engage diverse audiences, in a demanding creative environment, with key understandings of the demographics that the Asian Network caters to
- Able to use firm judgment and understanding of when to seek guidance from experts / escalate issues where appropriate
- An up to date knowledge of the BBC's diverse audiences and their needs and expectations
- Experience of influencing, negotiating and communicating effectively both internally and with external agencies / partners
- A strong communicator and ability to simplify complex problems; proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels and experience managing commercial and contractual relationships with third party suppliers and partners
- Effective planning and organising skills; ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities
- Ability to prioritise a conflicting workload efficiently and to maintain standards of accuracy and attention to detail when working to deadlines or changing priorities
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 .
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.