BBC: Digital Assistant Producer

Assistant Producer is needed in Salford, United Kingdom.

Client: BBC

Location: Salford, UK

Contract: Part Time

BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC. The Bitesize Careers website is aimed at children and young people aged 11 to 16+. Whether deciding what to study, planning a future career or just curious about the world of work, Bitesize Careers is here to help with advice from experts and from young people who’ve found a path that suits them. We create positive and aspirational digital content that can be used by students and young people whether they are learning at school or at home. Our content often reaches young audiences via their teachers, schools, careers advisors or parents and carers, and as such aims to reflects key moments in the careers education calendar, including around option choices, work experience, National Apprenticeship Week and National Careers Week. Bitesize Careers content is created both inhouse by a small production team and through external… commissions and collaborations. We produce a range of content including interactive quizzes, text-based advice or topical articles, short-form films, social media content, panel discussions, to help empower young people to make informed decisions about their future and discover opportunities and pathways that play to their strengths. Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize. • To support the development, management, and creation content on a variety of platforms. • To ensure all content is of a first-class standard: thoroughly researched and accurate, in keeping with audience needs and expectations. • To ensure that output complies with BBC editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards, and that BBC Health and Safety policy is observed. • Nurture and develop junior members of the team. • Creative self-starter with initiative and tenacity and ability to see how their work fits in with the wider needs of department. • To use a variety of specialist production skills in a multi-skilled environment. The ideal candidate will have previous experience of creating digital content that is exciting, engaging and informative, across a range of styles and formats and using content management systems to create, curate and publish content. You will have a good understanding of how digital platforms differ in terms of their styles and trends and will be able to spot stories and moments that will appeal to our target demographic. You’ll be full of ideas and ways we can create engaging content to reach new diverse audiences. You’ll be a driven self-starter, able to manage your time productively across the two days and in remote working scenarios. A creative problem solver, able to work around challenges and obstacles. You’ll be a strong digital Assistant Producer, experienced in making, editing and publishing engaging content for digital platforms. You’ll demonstrate practical experience of creating high-quality, digital content such as video, online articles, interactives, quizzes or infographics, and using content management systems. This could be content you make in-house, or content you commission with external independent companies. You’ll have excellent editorial judgement with an understanding of the digital platforms and formats, and how to use them to appeal to our young audiences. You’ll enjoy sourcing the best contributors, experts or educational consultants and working with them during production of content. You’ll have excellent digital copywriting skills, able to write engaging and audience appropriate text for digital content that will inspire our audience about careers. You’ll be working in a small team so it’s important to be able to prioritise between multiple projects, meet regular deadlines and to take direction and feedback from producers. This part time role will involve working closely with the other part time colleague and the Bitesize Careers producer to ensure the team’s projects are delivered on time and on budget. Experience of creating digital content for young people. • Experience of using Photoshop and Premiere (or similar) to edit images and video clips. • Using content management systems to create, curate and publish content. • Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects at the same time. • Experience of working with commissioned third parties (e.g. writers, designers, illustrators and production companies) to help create original content. • Able to use project management techniques and tools to deliver projects on time and within budget. • Excellent digital writing skills, able to write engaging and appropriate text. 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 don’t focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Diversity matters at the BBC. 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