Operations Executive Sound (Music)

Package Description

Job Reference: 020275

Salary Range:per annum depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Band: E

Contract type: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Any major BBC hub (UK Only)

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 in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care gym and much more.

Job Introduction

BBC Media Operations is at the heart of delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences. Comprising around nine hundred people it manages the craft and production operations for the BBCs news radio and some sport services across London Salford Birmingham with teams across the main UK sites. Our team captures edits and produces output 24/7 for TV radio and digital platforms. We are experts in our field with exceptional technical operational and production creativity at our core. Working closely with our editorial colleagues we co-create content that reaches millions of people across the UK and the world daily. The team also manages production services editing and post-production stores some OB bases in England and the BBCs fleet of pool and broadcast vehicles.

The Music area is focussed on all the music output being delivered by Media Operations-in studios and in other locations. There are many stakeholders in commissioning and production areas as well as independent production companies. You will be their main point of contact and work with other areas in Media Operations to ensure the most effective and efficient programme delivery and operational process. You will lead the specialist operational team working in London as well as being the key point of contact for this area within Media Operations.

We are looking for an Operations Executive (Sound) who can lead with flair and motivate our teams to achieve their best. You should bring innovative ideas to the table and foster a creative working environment. While great leadership is important being a good team player is also essential to ensure we work collaboratively across the business aligning our thinking with organisational and departmental strategy.

Main Responsibilities

• Serve as a highly visible and trusted leader focusing on effective management and enhancing staff engagement.
• Oversee the departments operational staff managing performance training and development.
• Collaborate with production partners to ensure the delivery of high-quality content.
• Align with divisional and departmental objectives to formulate viable and strategic business plans.
• Build and maintain relationships with recognized trade unions to ensure a cooperative and constructive industrial relations climate.
• Effectively manage and control the team budget.
• Stay abreast of industry developments and new technology. Share knowledge and experiences with colleagues and proactively seek out recommend and adopt more effective techniques ways of working and best practices to drive efficiencies and deliver value for money.

Are you the right candidate

• Significant Content or Operational Team leadership experience
• Empowering team leader who can coach and develop other to perform at their best
• Good knowledge of the music recording and broadcast sector its current technologies and working practice
• Inspiring and persuasive communicator with teams and stakeholders
• Proactive problem solver who takes accountability for resolving issues
• Collaborative approach and able to build positive relationships and achieve collective outcomes

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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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 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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