BBC Hiring for Producer, BBC Food – BBC Education Job at Bristol, England Full Time

BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.

BBC Food is a small, Bristol-based team managing the recipe output of the BBC’s programmes and campaigns. As part of BBC Education it’s our mission to teach our audiences about all aspects of eating well. Through articles, video and quizzes, we explore health and nutrition topics, eating on a budget, improving cooking skills and mythbusting.

We are looking for an experienced digital Producer with great editorial skills and experience who has a solid knowledge of food culture, politics and cookery.

Main Responsibilities

BBC food is looking for a producer who will manage ongoing plan of publishing and promotion of recipes and articles to drive digital reach and engagement, incorporating programme and commissioned content. You will also be responsible for generating new ideas for, commissions and edits feature articles to ensure accuracy, clarity and impartiality to the highest standards.

As well you will prepare and upload content to appropriate platforms using online publishing tools. Also ensuring all content meets identified audience/user needs and is in line with editorial strategy, informed by quantitative and qualitative data.

You must be able to deliver to tight deadlines and changing requirements whilst maintaining the highest editorial standards. This would also include generating ideas for, commissions and producing recipes, photography and video content, including compliance and safety checks. And also Manage a creative team of in-house digital food specialists and freelance contributors, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion in our staffing and content.

Are you the right candidate?

To be successful in this role it’s important that you have a genuine interest in encouraging and helping audiences to connect with our recipes. You’ll be digitally literate and interested in the details of publishing recipes in an online context, using data to inform your decisions.

You will be audience-focused in everything you do, putting yourself as a cook in the shoes of our users and helping them to find the best content. You’ll have superb attention to detail in producing trustworthy, high-quality content and have creative flair in how you sell it to our audience.

You will possess excellent editorial judgement, with an informed knowledge of the food industries and stakeholders. You’ll predict difficult questions and head off editorial issues at the pass.

Your organisational skills will be excellent, managing day-to-day promotions within a fluid broadcast environment, while working on longer-term projects to ensure they deliver on time and within budget.

A superb communicator, you will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work within a collaborative team, remaining calm and focused under pressure. You’ll support a creative team in achieving their best.

Please note: this role requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment.

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: D
Contract type: 1x FTC/Attachment/Freelance – Starting From February 2022 – May 2022 (exact dates TBC)
Location: Bristol/Hybrid

Please note that you will only be asked to submit a CV by way of application for this vacancy, and this CV will be the sole basis on which we initially review your application. We would therefore encourage you to approach your CV as an application and to tailor it to highlight the skills and experience which we’ve talked about in this advert. We’d love to know not only about your most relevant experience and responsibilities in previous roles, but also any achievements, transferable skills, or areas of personal or professional interest that highlight why you’d be a great candidate for this role.

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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

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