Assistant Technical Producer

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Job Band

Job Reference: SF23563
Band: C
Salary: Up to £28,000 - £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 3 - 6 month Fixed Term Contracts available to start in June (attachment opportunity)

Advert closing date 11th May 2025

Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10% • 26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes • Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

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Job Purpose

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 sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and online. 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 all content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily. The team is also responsible for the management of production services, stores, and some audio, fleet vehicles and OB bases in England.

We are looking for Assistant Technical Producers to join the BBC in London over the busy summer period. Technical producers have extensive craft audio experience and work on live and recorded speech and music, planning and delivering outside broadcasts and in broadcast studios in W1 and Maida Vale. You will work on a range of live and recorded studio work and editing sessions for BBC national radio stations. An interest in and passion for music and sound engineering skills and technology are a prerequisite for the role. Successful candidates will be working across all national music stations.

BBC Media Operations covers a diverse range of events including Glastonbury, golf, The Proms, comedy performance, opera, tennis tournaments and concerts, as well as complex one-off events at home and abroad; State Events, Paralympics and the Olympics are all delivered by staff from Operations. We produce a large amount of studio based output for our Radio Networks. We also manage and run events in the BBC Radio Theatre and we have a suite of specialist music studios at Maida Vale.

Main Responsibilities

Assistant Technical Producers are expected to have the required knowledge and experience to undertake all the duties as described below, working in radio studios, workshops, suitably equipped office areas and where appropriate on outside broadcasts. You'll be required to balance and control radio shows and be confident working on your own in a live studio 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.

• Use audio craft skills on productions, including straight-forward studio and outside broadcasts and events. Offering operational and creative guidance and advice to other colleagues and production staff.
• Use craft specialism to assemble audio objects utilising current production tools.
• Developing specialist skills whilst retaining the capability to balance and control the whole range of radio productions, working on own or in teams.
• Advise contributors, including actors and musicians, on aspects of performance relating to the sound balance.
• Rig and de-rig studio and outside broadcast equipment, directing others as appropriate, ensuring that the installed equipment can be used in a safe manner.
• Set up and test communications, recording and broadcast systems.
• Liaise with other organisations in order to agree and co-ordinate the provision of on-site facilities.
• Support to liaise with production and artists regarding their technical requirements and to stage manage where necessary.
• Assist in the development of new effective ways of working.
• Assist with forward planning, liaising on all matters relating to technical production, developing and maintaining good professional relations with programme departments.
• The planning of straight-forward recordings, transmissions, events and outside broadcasts (OBs), including equipment and logistical planning and supporting the appropriate allocation of resources.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have live radio studio experience and be able to balance and control radio shows whilst working on your own in a live studio!

• You should demonstrate an enthusiastic interest in the professional media field and show that you keep pace with new developments.
• You will also need to demonstrate you have good communication skills and experience of managing relationships both within the team and outside.
• You should have good planning and organising skills, and demonstrate a flexible approach to work.

Interview Process

Interviews will be held week on the 19th and 20th May. They will be held in person in London Broadcasting House. They will consist of both BBC Value based questions and a live technical test.

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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here .

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

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