Publicist

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 9 Month Fixed Term Contract Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios Communications
LOCATION: London - Television Centre
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Circa 40000 plus 5441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the worlds most sought-after TV audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful entertaining and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Publicist to join the Communications team in Productions. Youll create and deliver ambitious consumer and trade publicity campaigns including programme publicity interactive content and issues management.

Reporting into the Genre Communications Managers youll work across internationally recognised shows spanning audio factual drama comedy entertainment and kids & family. Youll bring strong television publicity experience excellent contacts confident stakeholder management and sound crisiscomms judgement with creativity at the heart of your work.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Youll join a fastmoving supportive Communications team where enthusiasm creativity and a cando attitude are genuinely valued. Working across iconic titles youll collaborate with a wide range of media and see your ideas come to life on a global stage. Youll grow quickly build strong industry relationships travel for key moments and thrive in a dynamic environment that rewards initiative flexibility and confident decisionmaking.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Lead and take full responsibility for devising and implementing ambitious communications strategies; working across a number of genres in the productions communication team to deliver exceptional publicity campaigns.
• Generate innovative ways of increasing favourable media coverage and raising the profile of our shows anticipating and managing issues with potentially negative impact; handling reactive issues as required.
• Write clear concise media information for programming and associated online and interactive content.
• Collaborate and form good working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders; establish and maintain a network of contacts with the media national and regional newspapers and magazines websites TV radio and online outlets.
• Evaluate work collecting and examining evidence to assess the impact of communications work and distributing lessons to the wider team.
• Coordinate press conferences screenings stunts launches and briefings always thinking creatively about how to make an impact.
• Work closely with other BBC Studios departments to maximise global impression at key identified moments such as MIPCOM and Showcase.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven experience in television publicity demonstrating successful delivery of highprofile campaigns.
• Strong understanding of the contemporary media landscape including social platforms digital trends and the newsgathering processes across broadcast print and online outlets.
• Exceptional news judgement and copywriting ability with a talent for producing clear engaging and compelling content that captures media and public interest.
• Demonstrated creativity in campaign development with a track record of experimenting with new ideas and approaches to reach diverse and emerging audiences particularly through digital channels.
• Outstanding interpersonal and relationshipbuilding skills with the ability to establish credibility and collaborate effectively with contacts at all levels.
• Extensive media contacts and strong understanding of digital publicity opportunities including the ability to leverage online and social platforms to maximise campaign impact.
• Proven organisational and planning capability including managing multiple concurrent campaigns coordinating and delivering events and handling issues or crises under pressure.

If you can bring these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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