Researcher x 2, Chantelle & Rory Teeny Tiny Creatures (BBC Children’s)

Do you know that a starfish has no brain or blood but relies on seawater to work

Or a moth’s wings are covered in scales like a fish.

Then we need you and your Teeny Tiny Creature research skills. We need two researchers to help us out on our the next series of Chantelle and Teeny Tiny Creatures.

Chantelle and Rory with Rory’s son Sandy, introduce the audience to fifteen more teeny tiny creatures, the environment they live in and the roles they play in the ecosystem. With the help of some amazing children, they investigate the fascinating world of biodiversity and the tiniest creatures that are vital to healthy ecosystems. Each episode focuses on one type of creature – learning how to identify it, what it eats, what eats it and its job – predator, prey, detritivore, pollinator or indicator species. Chantelle and Rory show the audience the impact these teeny tiny creatures have on the world around us and with their Teeny Tiny Tasks share how we can help them to help us.

Ideally looking for someone with experience of casting and finding child and adult contributors/locations plus doing fact checking on mini-beasts/insects. We also need someone that can find and set up locations and “bug” experts Research work can be done remotely.

The BBC is the leading Children’s broadcaster in the UK. We are proud of the award winning content we make across all platforms – television, online, radio, apps, YouTube, social media and more. BBC Children’s is committed to offering the best cross-platform and on-demand service for all UK children, providing a trusted environment which is enriching, enabling and relevant to the under 12’s.

Estimated start date: 14th March

Estimated finishing date: 19th August

The researcher will be a key member of the team who responsible for the casting of children and their families and ensuring we have diversity at the heart of our decision making.

We also need someone who can source and set up locations and find “bug” experts.

They must make contact with a large amount of parents/guardians and collate information regarding their desire to be involved with the series.

We require them to carry out recorded interviews with applicants over Zoom.

Be responsible for ensuring databases are updated throughout the casting process and adhere to data protection regulations.

They need to write briefs and feedback to the SP and Executive Producer on the potential kids and their families.

You must have experience with working with children and their parents/guardians. You should be confident in auditioning and briefing children over Zoom.

Experience and knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding is key.

You should have excellent communication skills and be able to brief your SP and Exec on the various children you have approached

You should have experience of setting up locations and sourcing experts who can talk knowledgably on “bugs” and invertebrates.

Proven research and writing skills

You’ll have an appreciation for the importance of supporting and encouraging diversity whilst working on Production and make a positive contribution towards improving diversity in the course of your work.

Experience of working on location will be a bonus. You will have strong organisational skills.

Please note that you will only be asked to submit a CV by way of application for this vacancy, and this CV will be the sole basis on which we initially review your application. We would therefore encourage you to approach your CV as an application, and to tailor it to highlight the skills and experience which we’ve talked about in this advert. We’d love to know not only about your most relevant experience and responsibilities in previous roles, but also any achievements, transferable skills, or areas of personal or professional interest that highlight why you’d be a great candidate for this role.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: B
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Glasgow

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/

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