Production Executive - EXTEND (23396)
Production Executive - EXTEND (23396)
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Job Description
Package Description
Job Reference: 23396
Band: E
Salary:depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Location: Office Base can be London Broadcasting House or Salford Dock House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
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) the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. Youre broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and longterm negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and nonapparent 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 via the shared mailbox.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If youd like more information on BBC Extend please visit the BBC Extend webpage.
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Benefits
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 our candidate pack.
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Job Introduction
This position will work alongside the existing Interactive Production Managers within ITACU to provide support to Production teams for managing votes competitions awards and charity appeals across all platforms. In addition the role will require an understanding of other audience engagement services available through the BBC and the wider media market. Interactivity may be promoted across live or prerecorded TV radio online social media platforms or combinations of multiple outputs so an understanding of the compliance and regulatory requirements associated with each media is required in this role.
This role is responsible for providing first line and ongoing technical support to content producers across a wide range of BBC output (both inhouse independent and partnerships) in a range of media including fixed line and mobile telephony SMS and online. Experience in interactive services is a prerequisite and an understanding of multiple platforms is preferable.
This role will work with the ITACU team and other BBC staff to understand the editorial requirements and ensure that an appropriate technical solution is implemented with a consideration for relevant risks and lessons learned from previous experiences. For many services this will require working on projects with multiple parties including service providers verifiers editorial staff (internal and external) teams across Chief Operating Officers Group including Technology & Media Operations Product Commercial Rights & Business Affairs plus BBC Marketing & Audiences the Privacy team and BBC Editorial Policy.
Interview process
This will be a virtual interview on MS Teams no more than one hour consisting of technical and valuesbased questions plus the opportunity to ask us questions.
Main Responsibilities
To provide initial advice and identify appropriate technical solutions for relevant interactive services across the BBC advising on suitable technical contingencies.
To oversee the implementation of interactive services to ensure that suitable technical controls (guarding against result manipulation multiple entries etc.) are in place and that security considerations (such as data protection) are made.
To evaluate the suitability of proposed external solutions to bespoke editorial requirements ensuring that the functional and nonfunctional performance of the system is fit for purpose and ensuring that suitable testing (stress performance recover security etc.) has been conducted.
To support contentproducing teams in evaluating the validity of a result understanding the anticipated trend in a vote (for example) and being able to identify unusual activity that may indicate an attempt to manipulate a result.
To maintain the ITACU Interactivity Management System (IMS) uploading evidence of appropriate compliance checks and contingencies.
To form effective internal working relationships with managerial content production technical legal / business affairs and editorial policy colleagues.
Are you the right candidate
An indepth up to date knowledge of interactive technologies/platforms is essential.
Experience in managing technical and compliance risk including escalation procedures planning implementing mitigating action and ensuring contingencies are in place in the event of issues arising
Strong enterprise leadership skills will be required as well as a demonstrable proactive approach to ensure the highest technical standards and ongoing compliance of the unit. In particular leading the live vote room environment requires quick and accurate responses to developing dynamic scenarios. This requires pressured application of all these skills described in this section.
Strong analytical skills with regards to evaluating the authenticity of a result (be it advising on winner selection or judging the validity of an online vote).
Proven experience in delivering projects/services in highly pressurised environments with multiple stakeholders preferably in a live studio environment.
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.
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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 click here.
Employment Type
Full-Time
