12 Oct
BBC
Great Britain
Job description
Job Reference : 19127
Band : C
Contract type : 1 x Permanent contract and 1 x short Fixed Term Contract available
Location : Salford, Media City
Salary : £30,000 - £40,000 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.
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Job Introduction
BBC Sport are looking for creative and dynamic Assistant Producers to work in our Short Form Digital Video team.
For a century, the BBC has been synonymous with covering the biggest sporting events and reporting on the stories that matter.
From World Cups to the Olympics and everything in between, our teams produce world-class content on TV,
radio and digital for bigger audiences numbers than anyone else, every single day.
Watching video content online is now more popular than ever with sites like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok having all seen an explosion in new video formats.
The BBC is looking for Assistant Producers to join our Sport Productions, Short Form Video Team and produce fast, exciting and relatable content for our large online audience.
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
Main Responsibilities
Our Assistant Producers are passionate about a range of sports and know what makes a good story. In this job, you ll need to know your sport, and have sound editorial judgement to spot the stories that matter and will engage audiences;
you will relish the challenge of producing creative and ambitious video content within budget.
Our extensive rights portfolio means that we cover some of the biggest events in sport. In 2024 alone, BBC Sport has covered the Uefa Men’s Euros, Paris Olympics, Wimbledon, Six Nations, Premier League & WSL and will cover the FA Cup and the Uefa Champions League.
Working as part of the Sport Productions, Short Form Video team you will produce and edit videos,
write headline copy and publish content direct to our audiences, wherever they are consuming.
That could be on the BBC Sport website or mobile app, BBC iPlayer on TV or on the move via social media on Instagram or TikTok.
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for sport and understand that online audiences have very different expectations to those that watch traditional broadcasts on television.
You’ll be expected to be a flexible, positive, collaborative, and a confident communicator and come up with ideas and treatments for programmes and digital platforms.
Delivering to tight deadlines and maintaining high editorial standards, you will work flexibly to deliver short form video to our vast audience and keep them watching.
Are you the right candidate?
- This role requires a proven record of contributing ideas for digital video content. Someone bursting with creative ideas and treatments that reflect the wide audience the BBC needs to reach.
- You will have a genuine and demonstrable enthusiasm and interest in sport, the stories and personalities within it, and a good understanding what stories and moments captivate audiences.
- We are looking for individuals with a flair for content making with experience of sport content production a bonus. Fast turn-around content and post production skills are essential.
- You will have demonstrable experience of video editing for digital platforms, including social media
- Experience and knowledge of sport production, including the ability to identify key ideas,
debates and issues within a range of sports.
- Demonstrable commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands how individual differences can benefit the BBC.
- Effective planning and organising skills, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
- The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet very short deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
This is not an entry level role, we're looking for candidates with experience within the area, please review the criteria for the role before applying.
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.
▶️ Assistant Producer, Sport Productions: Short Form Video
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