Production Coordinator BBC Audio North 22812
Production Coordinator BBC Audio North 22812
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Job Reference: 22812
Band: C
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Continuing contract
Location: MediaCityUK Salford
Interviews:Thursday 15th or Friday 16th May 2025 at MediaCityUK Salford
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to ourcandidate pack.
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Job Introduction
BBC Audio North is the single biggest supplier of BBC radio programmes and podcasts made outside of London. We love audio and make lots of it a rich mix of content spanning multiple genres including consumer investigations documentaries pop music religion and arts for Radio 1 2 4 6 Music plus the World Service and BBC Sounds.
The Production Coordinator provides logistical and coordination support to our teams on several productions ensuring delivery on time and within budget. This role is to work with the BBC Audio North team in Salford. You will join a team of 7 other PCs working across a variety of output and reporting to a Production Manager or Unit Manager.
Main Responsibilities
The Production Coordinator will work with the Unit Manager across a portfolio of programmes. The role will include the following tasks:
- Coordinating the use of resources in the most sustainable way and to best serve the audience
- Making sure every of licence fee money spent gets the best value for the audience
- Ensuring business and financial compliance of productions
Financial Coordination:
- Planning monitoring forecasting of and reporting on programme budgets
- Artist and contributor payments
- Presenter fee negotiations for ad hoc one offs and short series
Coordinating Production Resources:
- Setting up new staff and freelancers with IT accounts and the correct permissions
- Rights clearances
- Booking and monitoring travel arrangements for programmes including tracking costs
- Undertaking complex travel arrangements /carnets/visas
- IT Coordinator and allocation of Descript licences
- Reporting into BBC wide databases e.g. Eco Audio / 50:50
- Providing support to productions as required eg. studio timings location/OB support
- Preproduction paperwork & metadata eg. press details / billings
- Post production paperwork including Music reporting
- Manage listener correspondence
- Manage studio /and workshop bookings
Coordinating staffing resources:
- Support Production/Unit Manager with staff scheduling
- Booking and contracting of freelance/casual production members
- Checking and processing freelancer expenses
Are you the right candidate
You will need a demonstrable interest in and enthusiasm for Radio; preferably with experience of working on both live and prerecorded programmes or similar work in a different area. You will also need to be a good team player with great communication skills. Working knowledge of BBC systems would be an advantage but not necessary. You will also need strong planning and organising skills and ability to work across several projects simultaneously.
NB: This role may require early morning and weekend working. It is based in MediaCityUK Salford but travel and location work may be necessary including during evenings and weekends. Production Coordinators as members of BBC Audio North can be expected to be scheduled on programmes across the department according to business need.
For further information please contact Justine Hatcher Unit Manager Audio North .
Interviews will take place at MediaCityUK Salford on Thursday 15th or Friday 16th May 2025.
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.
We dont 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 youve 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 individuals 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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 socioeconomic 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 clickhere
Please note: If you were to be offered this role the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
