Junior Production Management Assistant

Junior Production Management Assistant

Production Management

Permanent - Full Time

GB

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 02/03/2025

THE ROLE

Job Reference: 21507
Band: A
Salary: £21,900 - £24,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Fixed Term Contract
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

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 and gym.

Job Introduction

BBC Creative is the BBC's in-house Creative agency. Our purpose is to make as many people as possible love and value the BBC, by creating campaigns that will leave a positive mark on popular culture. We now have an amazing opportunity for a talented Junior Production Management Assistant to join us.

You would join a team of creatively minded Producers, Production Managers, Traffic Managers and Production Coordinators, responsible for delivering the promotional campaigns and branding for the BBC, its content and services across all platforms - TV, digital, social, OOH etc.

As a Junior Production Management Assistant, you will provide logistical and production support to the team on a variety of productions (pre and post production) on a portfolio of content.

Main Responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide administrative, financial and logistical support to a production team on one or more productions and platforms, ensuring delivery of assets on time and within budget.

Working across all media and for all platforms, you will support the production co-ordinator and Traffic Manager with ensuring that all campaigns are appropriately resourced, produced and delivered in line with relevant policies and guidelines.

You will have experience in pre and post production with basic knowledge of production workflows and technology (eg edit, audio, design, shoots).

Throughout you will work closely with numerous areas of the Creative team, as well as establishing strong working relationships with our colleagues in Marketing and Media.

You will proactively look for ways of improving efficiencies within a production environment and champion new ways of working and/or for adopting new production-related technologies.

Great communication skills and a passion for our work are also key to this role!

Are you the right candidate

Experience of carrying out a supporting role within a production team.
An interest and understanding of the variety of content produced across BBC Creative.
Demonstrable working knowledge of end-to-end production processes and experience of working across a range of productions.
Comfortable with multiple requests at one time, with the ability to prioritise requests and show resilience in fast-changing situations.
Proactive, able to use your own initiative but also know when to refer up.
Excellent attention to detail and enjoy building relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, and enjoy working as part of a team.
Experience of supporting the delivery of a range of elements of productions on time and on budget.
Good working knowledge of multi-platform productions with a level of technical awareness.
Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
Can show business and finance skills - is able to understand and work with budgets.

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.

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 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.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.