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Personal Assistant, Commissioning

Job Requisition ID: 29464
Job Closing Date: 26th October 2025
London, GBR, W1A 1AA
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: 10M Fixed Term - starting December.
DEPARTMENT: Commissioning Support
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House - Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 30,000 - 37,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience plus a London Weighting allowance of 5,319. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CP25
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
JOB PURPOSE
Join the BBC Specialist Factual Commissioning team as a Personal Assistant, where you'll play a vital role in supporting senior commissioners and ensuring the smooth running of a fast-paced, high-profile department. Your organisational skills and proactive approach will help deliver outstanding content that connects with UK audiences.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Be part of a collaborative and passionate team that champions creativity and innovation. You'll work closely with senior leaders and production partners, gaining insight into the commissioning process while developing your skills in a supportive and fast-moving environment. This is a great opportunity to grow your career at the heart of BBC Content.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Provide proactive diary management and administrative support to at least three commissioners.
• Organise meetings, events, travel, and accommodation, ensuring effective use of time and resources.
• Act as the first point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Support the wider team with onboarding, expenses, purchase orders, and general office coordination.
• Collaborate with other PAs and Commissioning Coordinators to ensure seamless support across the department.
• Maintain efficient filing systems and manage communications, prioritising and responding as appropriate.
• Provide cover for other assistants and support for the Head of Genre when required.
• Carry out other administrative duties relevant to the department.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• You will have recent experience of working with and supporting senior staff at the BBC or a large organisation. This is recent experience of working as a Personal Assistant and Diary Manager to senior level managers.
• You will have a very high level of attention to detail and be comfortable with handling a large volume of work, juggling changing priorities and challenging deadlines.
• Ability to use own initiative and be proactive and manage own time and workload, dealing with specific queries as they arise.
• You will have experience of managing multiple diaries, working to multiple people balancing individual priorities. You will have experience of handling multiple and often conflicting requests calmly and effectively, regularly reprioritising your own and commissioners workload to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• You will have excellent organisation and planning skills. You will have significant practical experience of gathering, reviewing and collating complex and confidential information.
• You will have experience of developing strong working relationships and of working within a busy team supporting the workload of other Personal Assistants with a positive and collegiate attitude. You will be reliable and enthusiastic with proven ability to work in a team environment. You will need to work flexibly and independently, be a collaborative team player, and demonstrate a proactive and positive can-do attitude.
• You will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. You will be experienced in handling confidential information and understand the pressures and sensitivities of working in a sensitive corporate environment.
• You will have excellent IT skills and produce high quality documents and presentations. You will have extensive recent experience of Office software including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for BBC content.

Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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.
For any general queries, please contact:
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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