Junior Production Manager - EXTEND

BBC; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the BBC Cymru Wales newsroom in a fixed-term full-time role that plays a key part in planning coverage of significant events. You will work closely with various teams, ensuring efficient resource management while gaining valuable skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. This role offers opportunities for flexible working to fit your needs.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering productions on time and within budget.
• Effective interpersonal skills to communicate with diverse contacts.
• Strong organizational skills under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to production processes ensuring resources are aligned.
• Identifies and sources resource requirements for projects.
• Manages operational performance of productions.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: News & Current Affairs, BBC Cymru Wales

LOCATION: Cardiff – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £35,800 - £41,767 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.

Nid yw sgiliau yn yr Iaith Gymraeg yn hanfodol ar gyfer y swydd hon / Welsh language skills aren't required for this role.

BBC EXTEND

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact [e-mail].

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage. (EXTEND code: EX2324).

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

News is a dynamic and exciting environment and you’ll be right at the heart of it, working with digital, radio and TV teams across the BBC Cymru Wales newsroom. You’ll be responsible for helping plan our coverage of big events and foreign deployments as well as allocating resource to our most impactful stories. You’ll support staff training requirements, ensure new joiners have the appropriate technical support and help us operate as sustainably as possible.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll be crucial in ensuring we work efficiently and make best use of our budgets and resources. You’ll spend much of your time working with the Commissioning & Investigations team, which plans the newsroom’s most significant content. We’re looking to build on our reputation for being a great place to work and encourage colleagues to have a positive, innovative attitude. We’ll expect you to have some essential attributes when you join but in this role you’ll gain new skills on a daily basis.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Contributes to the start of production processes, ensuring resources and editorial aspirations are aligned.
• Contributes to, and helps to implement, practical actions to reduce environmental impact throughout production.
• Responsible for identifying and sourcing appropriate resource and location requirements
• Manages or contributes to the financial and operational performance of the production(s)
• Responsible for liaising with Asset Management on IT requirements both in the office and on location, and ensuring that those who are joining, moving or leaving the department are equipped appropriately with the correct IT.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience of contributing to and delivering productions across a range of output or genres, on time and on budget.
• Effective project management skills and proven experience of end to end projects delivery
• Interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to establish and maintain effective relations with a wide range of contacts.
• Record of being organised and responsive in fast paced environments
• Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• Recognised formal health and safety training (including risk assessment).
• Thorough knowledge of commissioning and green light procedures in order to drive the processes, ensuring resources and editorial aspirations are aligned.
• Understanding or experience in sustainability certification for productions
  
  

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, 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: [e-mail]

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.