Production Coordinator, BBC Sport, Extend (Manchester)
From the World Cups to the Olympics, whether it’s Premier League football, the FA Cups, Wimbledon or International Cricket, BBC Sport is at the heart of the world’s major sporting events. Our teams help make sure that every day, throughout the year our audiences are served with the sporting stories that matter as well as providing world class coverage of the events themselves. The unrivalled reach of our services, our extensive cross-platform offer and the strength of our brand & reputation are what distinguishes BBC Sport from the chasing pack.
We are looking to recruit Production Coordinators to work on numerous sports and output in our BBC Sport production management team. Depending on the production and sport, this can include working across TV Live output, TV and Digital Highlights output, Radio output and podcasts, Digital content including social media, and our digital and news journalism.
Please note, there could be further opportunities linked to this hiring process due the volume of recruitment and movement in the BBC Sport department.
Within BBC Sport, some of our production coordinators have TV gallery skills. This isn’t an essential skill for this process but please could you indicate as part of your application if you have gallery skills or if you would be willing to undertake a period of training and shadowing in order to develop TV gallery skills.
This is a hybrid role with some office and some home-based days, plus the potential for location work also. The office base is MediaCity, Salford and the successful candidate will balance office/location with home working.
Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will provide logistical and coordination support to a production team on one or more productions and platforms, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
Reporting to a Production Manager, you’ll work in partnership with editorial colleagues to deliver the outstanding, distinctive, multi-platform content that BBC Sport is renowned for, by providing creative ways to realise editorial ambitions within operational and financial constraints.
Are you the right candidate?
An interest and understanding of the variety of content produced across our sport department will be of benefit.
You will have demonstrable working knowledge of end-to-end production processes (in TV, Digital, Audio or News) and experience of delivering a range of Productions often with complex logistical requirements. You’ll have good project management and planning skills with the ability to deliver projects to budget. You will use your planning and organisational skills to enable the efficient running of the production and output. You will be comfortable working with spreadsheets and other administrative tools.
You’ll be comfortable with multiple requests at one time, have the ability to prioritise requests and show resilience in fast changing situations. You will be able to use your own initiative but know when to refer up. You will be required to deliver high quality production planning documents with excellent attention to detail and enjoy building relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, and enjoy working as part of a team.
It is desirable to have a knowledge of Outside Broadcasts but not essential.
About the BBC
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