Senior Technical Producer

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

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Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 22189
Band: D
Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is London - various locations. Varied shifts will be applied. Regular travel both in the UK and abroad is expected.

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.

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Job Introduction
BBC Media Operations is looking to increase its team of Senior Technical Producers in the Location team.
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. Working closely together 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 post-production, stores, and some audio, fleet vehicles and OB bases in England.

We want Media Operations to be collaborative, inclusive and full of opportunity, where people can make the most of what the whole BBC has to offer when it comes to their career and development.

The Location team is responsible for resourcing and supporting outside broadcasts for Radio and News, and for Production Services who supply and support kit to self-shooters. Our team work on some of the BBC's highest profile events ranging from music (Glastonbury, the Proms), to Sport (Euros, Olympics) to News (coverage of the Party Conferences, elections as well as breaking News events).

Main Responsibilities
As a senior member of the team, you'll be required to provide technical production leadership and expertise for a wide range of situations, including the most complicated and demanding productions, assuming the overall responsibility for the planning and realisation of high quality sound operations for a production or event in order to realise editorial objectives.

Typically, duties would include:

• Planning recordings, transmissions, events and outside broadcasts (OBs), including equipment, safety and logistical planning, and supporting the appropriate allocation of resources.
• Rigging and de-rigging outside broadcast equipment, directing others to ensure that the installed equipment can be used in a safe manner.
• Setting up and testing communications, recording and broadcast systems, including delivery content over public and private IP networks.
• Using audio craft skills, including balancing and editing, on Outside Broadcast productions, both live and recorded. Offering operational and creative guidance and advice to other colleagues and production staff.
• Liaising with other organisations in order to agree and co-ordinate the provision of on-site facilities.
• Liaising with production and artists regarding their technical requirements and to stage manage where necessary.
• Development of new ways of working including the evaluation and introduction of new technology, and to be the subject matter expert or design authority for technical projects.

Are you the right candidate?
For this role you will be a self-starter, you should have a proven track record of being able to manage your own time and support editorial staff, as well as demonstrate an interest for radio broadcasting operations.

You should be confident working on your own on live output. You will need to work well as part of a team and you will also be relied upon to play your part in the delivery of the media aspects of productions on time and to budget.

You will have great communication skills, as well as an understanding of the BBC's audience output. You will have the ability to work to a high standard within a small skilled team and have excellent interpersonal skills. Being flexible to change will be essential in this role.

Essential skills required:

• Extensive operational experience, specialising in all aspects of audio broadcast and recording.
• Thorough working knowledge and experience of radio studio and/or location operations.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully leading teams and the ability to manage resources within financial and technical constraints.
• A comprehensive knowledge of safety regulations and an ability to operate to and communicate safe working practices is essential.
• Ability to engage with colleagues and leaders across the department as well as contacts in a range of external organisations to achieve successful outcomes.
• A good understanding of IP networking and its application to media delivery.
• A good understanding of safe working practices and processes in the outside broadcast environment.

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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