Senior Content Producer (Communities)

Overview

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term. End date 12/04/2026

LOCATION: Cambridge

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £40,200 - £45,200 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the role

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is looking for a creative Community Producer who can deliver inspiring content to our audience. We have a diverse audience from the science and technology hub of Cambridge, the growing city of Peterborough and the rural Fen towns. We're looking for someone who is great at enabling people in these communities to tell their stories. You'll also help us plan unique community campaigns that help people realise the BBC is for them.

Why join the team

We're looking for someone with great editorial judgement, who can spot a story and turn it into creative content. You'll need experience of project management and be able to see an idea from concept to delivery. You'll have excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to manage people and establish new relationships. You will need extensive knowledge of the communities we serve and lead efforts to reach groups and organisations, making them feel supported, respected and celebrated.

Your key responsibilities and impact

• Leading the stations community engagement, project and event management and forging new partnerships.
• Leading teams in delivering impactful content that speaks to our underserved audiences.
• Managing the Station's apprentices
• Managing the Make a Difference Awards and other major station events and projects

Your skills and experience

You'll need an extensive knowledge of the communities in Cambridgeshire, with lots of ideas about how we can work with organisations and groups to highlight their work and to set up campaigns which will make an impact on air and in the community.

We're looking for someone with great editorial judgement, who can spot a story and turn it into creative radio and digital content. You'll need experience of project and event management and be able to see an idea through from conception to delivery. Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to establish new relationships are a must. You'll have significant journalism and radio programming experience.

Essential criteria

• Strong Editorial Judgement and significant journalism and programming experience
• Experience working and delivering content in a multi-platform way
• Ability to lead and inspire people
• Ability to come up with ambitious ideas, projects and campaigns and deliver from concept to completion
• Resilience and the ability to work reactively under pressure, with a proven ability to judge audience need and react to feedback

Desired but not required

• Past examples of managing people and relationships
• Experience of delivering digital content
• Well versed in Editorial and Compliance Policies and know who to call on when you need advice

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, 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.

Find out more about the BBC and our values in our 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.

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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