Assistant Producer, BBC Food

BBC Group and Public Services; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Assistant Producer to join a vibrant team in Bristol. This exciting role focuses on creating engaging content for a digital-first audience, particularly in the realm of food and cooking. The ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of social media dynamics, excellent organizational skills, and a passion for culinary culture. You will work collaboratively to generate innovative content ideas, ensuring high editorial standards while engaging with diverse audiences. Join a forward-thinking company that values creativity and offers exceptional career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

25 Days Annual Leave

Defined Pension Scheme

Discounted Health Care

Gym Membership Discounts

Qualifications

• Hands-on knowledge of social media platforms, especially Instagram and YouTube.
• Proven interest in food and cookery with professional editing experience.

Responsibilities

• Generate ideas for recipes and content strands for social media.
• Commission and create engaging web content for target audiences.

Skills

Social Media Management

Content Creation

Video Editing

SEO Knowledge

Organizational Skills

Education

Degree in Media or Communications

Experience in Food and Cookery

Tools

Web Publishing Tools

Video Editing Software

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Fixed Term - Full Time

Bristol, GB, BS8 2LR

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 14th May 2025

THE ROLE

Job ref: 23491
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Contract details: 1x 12 month FTC/attachment role - starting ASAP.
Location: Bristol -This is a hybrid role with an expected 2 days per week working from Broadcasting House, Bristol.
Salary: £33,000 - £43,000depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 ourcandidate pack .

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contactReasonable Adjustments . For any general queries, please contact:BBC HR .

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.

Interviews for this role will be held virtually (on Teams) likely in week commencing 2nd June 2025.

Job Introduction

BBC Food is looking for an audience-focused, digital-first Assistant Producer with great social media productions skills and experience, a solid knowledge of cooking and food culture and top organisational skills to join a small, friendly team in beautiful Bristol.

BBC Food is a content platform that inspires and educates home cooks, through video, social media channels, recipes and articles. We inform and educate a mainstream audience on nutrition, budgeting, cooking skills and sustainability. We tell stories that bring people together through a love of our shared food culture – its key moments, communities and most loved dishes.

Working within a specialist team, you’ll be rigorously checking the quality of our content – both in text and video format – to ensure it’s crystal clear and foolproof. You’ll be finding new ways to present trustworthy content that engages audiences and cuts through the noise. You’ll be working with teams inside and outside the BBC to generate the best ideas and see them through to delivery.

Main Responsibilities

Day-to-day work will involve generating ideas for recipes, videos and content strands for social media in line with editorial strategy. To deliver those ideas you’ll be commissioning and creating web content – recipes, video and images – getting the best from influencers and content creators. You’ll be planning, writing and editing engaging social media copy for the target audience on our different platforms.

Within a nimble, multi-disciplinary team you’ll be delivering to tight deadlines and changing requirements while maintaining the highest editorial standards, checking and reporting that all content has appropriate clearances, sign-off and compliance checks. You’ll be working with internal and external stakeholders on the marketing and promotion of content. You’ll be learning from the performance of content and stats to shape new ideas.

Are you the right candidate?

You are if you have:
• Great hands-on knowledge of different social media platforms, especially Instagram and YouTube, and how to implement social strategies for each
• Proven interest in and knowledge of food and cookery, with professional experience in editing, proofreading and publishing recipes
• Strong picture and video editing skills, specifically for social media, with desired filming experience
• A clear understanding of the needs and profile of the BBC Food audience and ability to translate this into compelling content ideas
• Strong editorial judgement, accuracy, and editorial sensitivity with understanding of current UK food culture and its diversity
• Effective planning and organisational skills with the ability to deliver on several areas of work at a time
• Strong digital literacy, with experience of using web publishing and editing tools and knowledge of SEO

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.

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 behaviourshere .

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 clickhere .

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.

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.

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