Senior Content Producer - Glasgow, United Kingdom - BBC

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Content- Fixed Term - Full Time- Glasgow, GB, G511DA- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 06/05/2024
THE ROLE:
Package Description:


Job ID: 015113

Salary:
£41,000 - £51,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Band:
D

Contract Type: 12 Month Attachment / Fixed Term Contract

Location:
Glasgow

- Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
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Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
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Benefits
  • We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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.


If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.


Job Introduction:


Do you love speech radio? Would you like to lead our team on BBC Radio Scotland's biggest reaching radio programme - Mornings with Kaye Adams / Stephen Jardine.

This live weekday show includes an hour's phone-in, delves into the topical stories behind the news, profiles interesting Scots and aims to bring a sense of fun and entertainment to our listeners' mornings.

The Senior Producer is responsible for ensuring the team involved in producing these programmes is fully supported. You'll have bags of energy, great writing and communication skills and know what makes great radio.


Along with your team of Producer and Researchers, you'll be responsible for shaping the programmes, liaising with talent, taking responsibility for budget, delivery, compliance and team line management, as well as motivating and inspiring your staff and presenters.


The role is five days a week based in Glasgow and will report to the Executive Editor for Speech, Susie Crumless.


The Senior Content Producer will lead and inspire a team to develop and deliver multiplatform content, ensuring that it achieves the highest creative and editorial standards, delivers on time and on budget, with adherence to BBC guidelines.


Main Responsibilities:


  • Just some of the things we get up to day to day include:
  • Supporting the production team and providing editorial guidance.
  • Generating ideas with the team for our live daily phonein, onair discussions, themes and regular features for live output.
  • Seeking ways to increase diversity in our onair talent
  • Ensuring our output reflects audiences we serve
  • Giving creative feedback and complying output and programmes
  • Contributing to production duties
  • Working with onair talent
  • Prepare and manage staff rotas
  • Understand and manage departmental budgets
  • Help build and maintain team spirit, ensuring the best use of individual skills and abilities
  • Support and develop team members.
  • Supporting and leading visualisation aims
  • Working with other teams such as Content Discovery to get our content in front of audiences
  • Collaborating with other teams across BBC Scotland to maximise the impact of our content
  • You're passionate about speech radio, have a strong interest in news and current affairs and issues affecting the people of Scotland and can help unpack these topics in an accessible way
  • You can lead a team to output creative and ambitious live content whilst also encouraging personal development
  • You can come up with ideas and support researchers and producers working on live radio mornings programmes
  • You'll be comfortable providing editorial advice and support for our live content.
  • You're flexible, work calmly under pressure and can prioritise workloads and output requirements
  • You have considerable knowledge and practical experience of radio production
  • You can communicate with people from different walks of life and backgrounds
  • You are a collaborative and a team player able to give and receive creative feedback and work together to provide great content for our audiences across different platforms

About the BBC:

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.

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