Salary: up to £38,000 depending on relevant skills and experience. (plus London Weighting allowance of £5,319)
Contract type: 2 x 12 months Fixed Term Contracts
Location: Hybrid role with an expectation of presence in the London Broadcasting House building at leas...
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### Package Description
Band: C
Salary: up to £38,000 depending on relevant skills and experience. (plus London Weighting allowance of £5,319)
Contract type: 2 x 12 months Fixed Term Contracts
Location: Hybrid role with an expectation of presence in the London Broadcasting House building at least 2/3 times a week, depending on operational need. .
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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 [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
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### **Job Information**
BBC Media Operations is at the heart of teams 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, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and digital platforms. Our team are experts in their field with exceptional technical, operational and production creativity at their heart. Collaborating closely with our editorial colleagues, we co-create content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily. The team is also responsible for the management of production services, editing and postproduction, stores, and some audio, fleet vehicles and OB bases in England.
Planning and Delivery sits under the Head of Department at the heart of the operation, working hand in hand with the Operational teams and Managers and Editorial teams to plan demand and ensure the cost effective delivery of operational crafts, kit and resources across the wide range of content creation and delivery platforms both around the UK and abroad, both on a range of annual cultural highlights across the year and pivotal moments in News.
Interview process
• Inbox exercise for shortlisted candidates – approx. 30 mins on the day of the interview.
• Interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions (to begin the week commencing: 19th May \*this may be subject to change”)
### **Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**
The Senior Resource Scheduler will work closely with their Planning and Delivery Operations Manager and, depending on the area alongside other Senior Resource Schedulers and/or Resource Schedulers. You will help support the other Resource Scheduler in your area, helping with My Conversations, giving relevant training, and managing meetings to plan and maintain working patterns and allocations to cover operational and broadcast needs. Using your knowledge of BBC Policies and the operation, you will ensure that contracted hours are maintained for the team against programme requirement. You will make sure that other scheduling tasks are conducted to a high standard, including reporting sickness, cost recovery, overtime, booking Freelancers, and booking studio time and other resources. You will have responsibility for managing timesheet process and team admins duties and working closely with the Operations Managers, Technical Managers, Craft teams and Editorial teams you will help plan the teams working across planned events, scheduled output, and breaking stories. You will represent your team and the department in various projects and be expected to be able to advise on any systems testing and workflow planning.
You will work collaboratively within the other Senior Resource schedulers and the rest of the Planning and Delivery team in Media Operations to ensure that bookings and requests are assessed and planned across the departments effectively and that requirement, head count and cost recovery workflows are understood and administered accordingly.
### **Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience**
You will have hands on experience of scheduling and allocating teams within a broadcasting environment and of balancing the needs of the business and operation against the requests of the scheduled teams and the BBC’s policies and other regulations. You will have great administrative experience ad a good eye for detail. You will be experienced in managing and prioritising your tasks according to the priorities of the area in collaboration with the rest of your scheduling team and the Planning and Delivery Ops Manager. You will be familiar with adopting new workflows and business processes and supporting others with this. You will be a great communicator, capable of delivering information in an accessible way, to a range of people at all levels. You will be able to work pragmatically and independently, resolving issues and finding solutions in a creative and timely manner and to support others in this.
This is a Hybrid role with an expectation that you will come into the building at least twice a week and depending on business requirement, more often, particularly for any initial training or development needs and according to the operational needs of the department.
For further information on the role, please contact Birta Sigmundsdottoir or Sarah Chandler.
### **About the BBC**
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.
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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.
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