BBC Hiring for Creative Full Time

Do you love creating content for the digital space?

The Content Discovery team at BBC Scotland are looking for digitally native Creative to join them to create content to market brands across our portfolio, reaching new and existing audiences

No day will be the same – one moment you’ll be creating memeable content for our social platforms, the next you’ll be pulling together storyboards/scripts for Talent for our digital supporting material.

At the heart of everything you do will be the audience – you’ll be keen to use your creative skills to create content that will engage with them across our platforms.

Ideally you’ll be obsessed with keeping on top of digital and graphic design trends. You’ll be able to think of new ways to reach new audiences and showcase the best of BBC Scotland.

We’ve listed some of the things we think we’re looking for in a person below. It may be that you’re unable to tick every box – if you feel you’re able to bring something to this role, then don’t hesitate to apply.

Main Responsibilities

Who you’ll be working with

The Content Discovery team sit within Marketing and Audiences and look after a whole host of digital output from across all of BBC Scotland. Our team thrive on creative challenges and strive to build individual skills, as well as each other’s.

Just some of the things we get up to day to day include:

• Creating content to market shows across BBC Scotland digital touchpoints
• Creation of images for BBC platforms like iPlayer, Sounds and more
• Curating content across BBC platforms to create an onward journey for audiences
• Working with our Audiences team to keep on top of digital analytics and adjusting strategy to fit
• Working with other teams within Marketing & Audiences to work to the Marketing and Pan-BBC strategy
• Working with other teams to get our content in front of audiences
• Working with suppliers across the industry to get the assets we need to promote their content
• Social media output across Masterbrand accounts (BBC Scotland, Radio Scotland, River City to name a few)

Are you the right candidate?

Who you are you?:

• You’re passionate about digital platforms as a way of reaching audiences
• You’re adept at switching between Adobe products – Premiere, AfterEffects and Photoshop
• You’re able to shift from one project to another, prioritising to audience needs
• You have a keen eye for detail
• Creative and curious – always looking for new ways to do things and keeping on top of the latest trends.
• Collaborative and a team player – able to give and receive creative feedback and work together to create solutions for audiences

As part of the application please provide a link, linking to your portfolio of work.

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 in the document attached below.

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

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent – Full Time
Location: Scotland

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.