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Production Coordinator, BBC Audio

Job Requisition ID: 37157
Job Closing Date: 8 February 2026
Bristol, GBR, BS8 2LR
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time / Attachment, Full-time until September 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC Audio Wales & West
LOCATION: Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 29,000 - 35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Are you an organised and proactive individual with a passion for audio production? Production coordinators are the glue that holds programme making together, and their work and influence touches every aspect of the lifecycle of a programme. They're the team responsible for all the resources a programme needs - does it have the right budget, is money being spent in the most effective way, does it have the right team in the right place at the right time with the right paperwork (especially for complex location recordings), are we working in the most environmentally sustainable way possible, are copyright items cleared to be published on all our platforms and do programmes have all the metadata required attached to them to enable both audience and archive searchability?
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
's creative teams produce 20,500 shows and make an extraordinary range of content. We're made up of 500+ colleagues who produce over 90 hours of content every single day. We supply programmes, podcasts and music for almost all of the BBC's radio networks and BBC Sounds.
Radio 1's Breakfast Show with Greg James to Radio 4 favourites such as Woman's Hour, You & Yours and The Archers are made by our teams.
In Speech production, we create content across a wide range of specialist subjects. In Bristol, our output ranges from arts programmes such as Radio 4's Soul Music to factual and topical output such as Farming Today and Any Questions?
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Resource Management: Ensure all necessary resources (IT, production staff, freelancers) are available and all content attracting copyright is clearable.
• Staffing & Cost Coordination: Assist in scheduling staff to programmes and help to manage the staffing and programme budgets, ensuring productions remain within budget and deliver value for money. Support Production Manager in liaising with external providers and manage cost decisions within budgetary remit.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with policies, guidelines, and legislative requirements to minimise risk.
• Influencing team-members within BBC Audio and the wider BBC: Influence and motivate key contacts and colleagues to achieve desired outcomes.
• Project Planning: Demonstrate strong organisational and planning skills to manage projects effectively.
• Value for Money: Ensure production/content delivers demonstrable value for money through effective coordination of people and resources.
• Budget Management: Prepare, manage, set, and monitor production budgets, including forecasting and reporting. Assess financial viability of content ideas.
• Metadata Management: Adhere to processes for capturing and managing metadata in line with BBC guidelines, ensuring Archives have necessary information.

Note: This role may require early morning and weekend working. It is based in Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol but travel and location work may be necessary, including during evenings and weekends. Production Coordinators, as members of BBC Audio Wales & West can be expected to be scheduled on programmes across the department according to business need.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven track record of playing a co-ordinating role within a production team
• Experience of delivering a range of/parts of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions
• Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with a level of technical awareness
• Excellent organisational and planning skills; able to schedule and prioritise people and activities to meet operational deadlines
• Business and finance skills; able to prepare, manage and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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 or on an orchestra conditions contract.
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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