Commercial, Rights & Business Affairs Assistant (Music Reporting) - EXTEND

Commercial, Rights & Business Affairs Assistant (Music Reporting) - EXTEND

Administrative Services

Permanent - Full Time

Location: London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Salary: £29,000-£31,000 pa (plus London Weighting if London based £5,319pa), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

THE ROLE

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend Programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You're broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team.

The BBC is fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. We have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Commercial Rights and Business Affairs Assistant to join the BBC Commercial, Rights and Business Affairs (CRBA) team. This is a permanent position.

CRBA manages and connects the BBC's Intellectual Property, strategic and business interests through expert negotiation, contracting and commercial deal-making. It is comprised of multiple business teams: Production, Events & Talent; Commissioning; Distribution & Business Development; Commercial Development & Partnerships; BRBA News; CRBA News; Rights, Frameworks & Blankets.

This post is to support the BBC's responsibility to report music use on its platforms to the music collecting societies under the terms of blanket licences. Responsibilities will include supporting content producers to supply music reporting data via various technology platforms to the BBC's own Music Reporting System; analysing and cleansing data where necessary; running routine reporting for the team and other stakeholders; assist the Music Reporting Executive in testing improvements to the Music Reporting System and associated software.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a CRBA Assistant, you will be integral to the day-to-day output of commissioning activity across all BBC Public Service Platforms. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of experts in rights, commercial, strategy, policy as well as legal professionals to provide accurate, timely, practical and commercially-focused legal, rights and business affairs support. Your role will primarily focus on providing business affairs support for content commissioning.

Additionally, the successful candidate will be:

1. Responsible for an allocation of TV Channels and Audio services to enable reporting of music use to the music collecting societies.
2. A contact point with audio and audio visual producers/channels/radio stations to manage music reporting data.
3. Assist the Music Reporting Executive in testing new improvements to Music Reporting software.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

To be successful in this role the following skills, knowledge and experience are essential:

1. Familiarity with BBC output across all platforms.
2. Good interpersonal skills and experience of developing good working relationships.
3. Excellent IT skills with experience of databases and administration systems.
4. Excellent organisation, coordination and time management skills.
5. Good attention to detail and the ability to examine and summarise complex data.
6. Ability to work independently and demonstrate excellent communication skills.
7. Demonstrable ability to analyse and review business information effectively to extract insights.
8. A good understanding of Business Affairs for the television, radio and digital media industry and related BBC policy and strategy.
9. An approach that encompasses proactivity, flexibility, resilience, passion and energy.

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.