Senior Series Producer Live Studio Show

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  • London or Manchester  
    London, United Kingdom
    perm  
  • Company
    BBC  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    Competitive salary package
  • Closing date
    18 April 2021  
    Posted on
    13 April 2021  

BBC Studios is the main TV production arm of the BBC. It is a major supplier of high quality content and the source of many of the BBC’s most creative and inspiring programmes.

One of our programmes, is looking for an experienced series producer with experience in overseeing the making and delivery of short form journalistic content.

Please note: this role is London based and will then transition to Manchester for the remainder of this contract.

Role Responsibility:

As Series Producer, you will lead the team on output that can be pressured and contentious, but is high impact and particularly resonates with the audience, ensuring we maintain our high editorial standards whilst being creative in our production. This role requires the highest standards of creativity and popular journalism, all to be achieved against tight deadlines and budgets, and all the while displaying excellent management and leadership skills.

The Ideal Candidate:

With substantial experience as a factual Series Producer and a background in daily news and/or current affairs TV at senior level, you’ll have a track record of managing a production from ideas generation through to delivery. Evidence of sound editorial judgement and the ability to lead a team is essential, as are good writing skills, significant management experience, and experience of organising and keeping on top of changing schedules in a fast-moving environment with often contentious material. Experience of consumer television journalism at SP level is essential.

Package Description:

Please note: This role will be London based from May 2021 - January 2022 and then transition to Manchester from January - March 2022.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the applicationThere 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 our career site.

About the Company:

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 visit our website.

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