Assistant Producer, BBC Scotland Sport

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CONTRACT TYPE: 10 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment - Full-Time

DEPARTMENT: Scotland Sport

LOCATION: Office Base is Glasgow.

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,800 - £35,786 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. 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, gym and much more .

BBC Sport Scotland serves audiences across digital, television and radio covering football, rugby and a wide range of other sporting events and personalities. Sportscene covers Scottish football, and then some. Premiership, SWPL, Championship, Scottish Cup, European Qualifiers and Scotland internationals with live, highlights and analysis.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Producer to join the BBC SPORT Scotland team. Reporting to the Assistant Editor for Television, you will work primarily in television sport and be responsible for delivering content for the various Sportscene programmes plus original digital video content for online and social media.

It's not just football, we are committed to reaching out to all of our audience and delivering a diversity of content that is both relevant and engaging.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Ability to offer new and fresh ways of delivering content; both editorial and colour-based with a multi-platform approach.
• Edit match highlights in a fast turnaround environment across our SPFL & SWPL coverage and have experience of directing and editing colour VT material and features.
• Generate fresh, modern ideas for informative sports programmes/features.
• To watch and digitally log accurately sporting action, identifying what is important or useful; either as pre-recorded material, or live at Pacific Quay Glasgow.
• Coordinate the VT area - replays and analysis - at Pacific Quay or on live Outside Broadcasts and work closely with, and direct, EVS operatives.
• Work in conjunction with a VT Editor, to edit highlights of sporting action into complete programmes, or programme inserts.
• Knowledge and ability to use editing software - Avid Newscutter/Media Composer, Avid Assist/Media Manager desirable.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• This role requires significant experience in TV Sport Production.
• The ideal candidate will have a flair for content-making and experience of sport Outside Broadcasts, fast turn-around programmes and post-production are essential.
• They will need to be bursting with creative ideas and treatments that reflect the wide audience the BBC needs to reach.You will also have a genuine enthusiasm and interest in sport, in particular football.
• Someone with strong editorial skills, who has an eye on not only providing linear content but a multi-platform approach and how best to promote our coverage.
• You will have ability to work to tight to deadlines as part of a team and as an individual.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Self-shooting ability also desirable.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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