Job Description

Media Operations
Permanent - Full Time
London, GB, W1A 1AA
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 26/05/2025

THE ROLE

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Package description

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Job Requisition: 23569

Band: C

Salary range: 35000 - 45000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

Contract type: Permanent

Location: NBH, London, 3-5 days in the office.



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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.



If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job introduction

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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 BBC's 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 BBC's fleet of pool and broadcast vehicles.



If you wish to discuss the role, please contact Tony Ward, Operations Executive.

Interview process

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Virtual interview - approx. one hour of role specific and values based questions

Main responsibilities

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The Speech team within Media Operations (Sound) supports a wide range of speech-based audio content, both live and pre-recorded. This includes factual and arts programming, audio drama and longform current affairs output. You will be a key member of this close-knit specialist team working in NBH and occasionally on location, using your sound design flair, knowledge of visualisation techniques and well developed operational skills to ensure that we maintain technical excellence in all we do.



As a Technical Producer in Sound, you will need to work closely with technical colleagues, production teams and editorial leads, and support and guide less experienced colleagues in order that they can further develop their skills.

Are you the right candidate

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We are looking for a Technical Producer who is self-motivated and constantly seeking to expand their knowledge and skills. You will have a passion for audio drama, but also be able to apply your sound design and broadcast skills to all other areas of our work too. You should be happy leading small teams on productions, and confident in offering innovative solutions to a wide range of production stakeholders in support of their editorial ambitions. Being a good team player is also essential to ensure that we deliver the ambitions of Media Operations and our production partners.



What we are looking for:



Extensive operational audio experience across multiple genres in a studio environment Experience of working on drama productions in a broadcast or theatre setting Experience of advanced sound design using craft audio editing software Awareness of technical advances in audio and visualised content Competent use of BBC audio scheduling, edit and playout software such as dira!, alongside well developed knowledge of common PC tools and cloud-based sharing platforms

About the BBC

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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.



We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.



Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.



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.



To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

DISCLAIMER

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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.