Junior Production Manager, BBC News Job at BBC Group and Public Services in Hous

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JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 month Attachment/Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News & Current Affairs - Long Form Audio
LOCATION: Salford
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £45,000 p.a. depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Purpose of the Role

Join the award-winning BBC News & Current Affairs team creating narrative and news podcasts, visualised audio content, audio documentaries, and landmark audio series for Radio 4, World Service, BBC News, and BBC Sounds. As a Junior Production Manager, reporting into the Unit Manager - you’ll play a key role in shaping our production management processes, helping deliver operational excellence across a wide range of programmes in line with BBC News & Current Affairs strategies.

Why join the team

Long Form Audio is a dynamic team based across Salford and London, fostering a collaborative atmosphere and offering a wide range of programming opportunities. This is a brand-new role based in Salford, ideal for someone motivated to make it their own, with plenty of scope for growth, creativity, and impact in a fast-paced and ever-evolving department.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Line management of production management apprentices and PMAs
• Managing commissioning workflows, ensuring timely delivery of budgets; monthly business reporting and greenlight packs
• Collaborating with Senior Editorial to track and maintain staffing rotas
• Managing and forecasting budgets across multiple productions
• Supporting production teams with logistical and operational needs

Your Skills and Experience

• Proven experience managing and forecasting production budgets
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Familiarity with BBC systems
• Excellent IT proficiency, particularly in Excel
• Experience supporting production teams on foreign deployments

Desired but Not Essential

• Experience working in a fast-paced production environment
• Understanding of greenlight and commissioning processes
• Some HR and line management experience

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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 pension scheme 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.

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: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.

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