Assistant Content Producer - iPlayer Curation

BBC iPlayer is at the forefront of our strategic goal to reinvent the BBC for young audiences and we have ambitious targets to maintain our position as a market leader. We are now looking for an Assistant Content Producer to join the team for 12 months.

The iPlayer Editorial Team’s focus is to curate and optimise content on iPlayer to provide a world class service for our audiences.

We work in a creative environment that is audience and data driven, shaping the future of a more personalised iPlayer through collaboration with colleagues in Content, Design & Engineering and Marketing & Audiences.

We are looking for someone who can bring their passion for the BBC’s TV output to the curation of promotional inventory across BBC iPlayer and third party platforms.

You will have a keen eye for detail and a creative mind-set to plan and schedule content for a diverse range of audiences across a range of genres, ensuring a proposition of the highest quality.

With iPlayer at the heart of the BBC’s strategy, you will be expected to work with teams across the BBC in order to ensure that output reflects wider editorial and marketing priorities.

Please see the appendix of the attached Job Description for a full list of role responsibilities.

We are looking for someone who has a passion for television and knowledge of the wider TV and VOD market. You will ideally bring:

• Experience of working in a broadcast or content production environment that requires making nuanced editorial decisions for a broad range of audiences.
• Knowledge of the BBC’s TV output and the wider VOD market
• 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.
• Bucket loads of creativity - you’ll have a fresh new approach and bring out creative ideas in others.
• Up to date knowledge of the BBC’s diverse audiences and their needs and expectations and use this to shape creative and engagement output.
• An ability to use IT proficiently, including a range of software packages

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.

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Band: B
Contract type: 12 month FTC/Attachment
Location: London - Broadcast Centre

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 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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/