Production Coordinator

BBC; Bristol; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A major broadcasting organization is seeking an organized and proactive Production Coordinator to join their team in Bristol. This role involves managing resources, budgets, and compliance for diverse audio productions. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in coordinating roles, delivering productions efficiently, and possess excellent organizational skills. Join us in contributing to the production of quality content across BBC radio networks.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of playing a coordinating role within a production team.
• Experience of delivering productions on time and budget.
• Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all necessary resources for productions are available.
• Assist in scheduling staff and managing budgets.
• Ensure compliance with policies and guidelines.

Skills

Coordinating role within a production team

Delivering productions on time and budget

End-to-end multi-platform production knowledge

Excellent organisational skills

Business and finance skills

Job description

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

BBC Audio’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.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 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.

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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.