Production Coordinator News

ITV Consumer Limited 2024; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading news organization in Gateshead is looking for a Production Coordinator for a part-time, permanent position. You will provide critical administrative support to ensure the smooth operation of busy newsrooms. Key responsibilities include managing invoices, coordinating health inspections, and supporting editorial staff with travel bookings. Ideal candidates will possess strong administrative skills, excellent organizational abilities, and the ability to work under pressure. The role offers flexible working and generous benefits including holidays and an annual bonus.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous holiday allowance

Annual bonus opportunity

Competitive pension contribution

Wellbeing and volunteering days

Qualifications

• Proven administrative skills in a busy office environment.
• Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Head of News and management team.
• Process local invoices and coordinate building and health inspections.
• Manage incoming and outgoing post and goods.

Skills

Strong word processing skills

Exceptional organisational skills

Multi-tasking and prioritising

Initiative and judgement

Discretion with sensitive information

Teamwork ability

Learns new skills and adapts

Confident communication

Job description

We are looking for a Production Coordinator to join our award-winning news team in Tyne Tees and Border in a permanent, part-time position. As our part time Production Coordinator, working alongside our full time Production Coordinator, you will provide administrative support to the Head of News, Operations Manager, Managing Editor and management team, helping to ensure the smooth running of our busy newsrooms, offices and news vehicles. Both Production Coordinators will have separate or specific tasks but will also work alongside each other as a team, sharing workload, responsibility and providing cover for each other's roles. Working closely with the Operations Manager, you will provide a site services function for our main buildings in Gateshead and Carlisle and our news bureaux in Billingham, Selkirk and Edinburgh. You will process local invoices and help coordinate routine building and health and safety inspections. In addition you will help manage any incoming and outgoing post and goods and be a point of contact for visitors to the Gateshead site. The Production Coordinator is also at the heart of supporting our editorial and production specialist staff, booking travel, accommodation and facilities. There will also be the requirement to support or lead the organisation of staff events. You will have proven administrative skills, including strong word processing skills, gained in a busy office environment. Most importantly, you will possess excellent organisational skills, be able to work accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines and have an interest in local news and current affairs. A confident communicator with the ability to build relationships, you will be able to juggle multiple tasks whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail. You will be able to demonstrate confidentiality, tact and diplomacy at all times, be self‑motivated, flexible and adapt and prioritise at short notice.

Key Criteria

• Strong word processing skills with the ability to write correspondence as well as create forms, surveys & presentations.
• Exceptional organisational skills and demonstrate the ability to multi‑task and prioritise and delegate as appropriate.
• A self‑starter demonstrating the ability to use initiative and judgement to deal with sometimes complex questions and issues as they occur.
• Can be trusted to be discreet with highly sensitive information.
• Ability to get the best out of people and to work as part of a successful multi-skilled team.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn new skills and adopt new ways of working.
• Confident, calm & friendly manner maintaining a positive attitude, whilst working under pressure to tight deadlines.

So, if you're a confident communicator with proven administrative skill and a real desire to work for ITV, we want to hear from you. Newsrooms are busy and pressurised environments, involving live news production, which often requires colleagues to make quick decisions under pressure. We also need people who are able to use their initiative and, particularly for editorial roles, know what information might be required and how to research it. This is a fundamental requirement of the role. We will always consider any request for reasonable adjustments as part of the interview process, for example sharing key themes when that is requested in connection with a neurodivergent condition, whilst still ensuring that we are able to test a candidate's ability to operate in the specific environment of a newsroom.

Benefits

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life