Assistant Producer, CBeebies Parenting

Job Details

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 2 x FTC/attachment role until 27th February 2027
DEPARTMENT: Children's and Education
LOCATION: Media City, Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £34,000 - £44,000 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

In this role, you will be working on CBeebies Parenting.
Our digital offering - the website, social media & podcasts, shows parents how to create opportunities to build chat and learning into their daily tasks and everyday play and we share expert advice on child development and produce content on various aspects of parenting life.
Our campaign and partnership offer involves working with many leading professional organisations in early years, child development and speech & language, as well as local authorities, family hubs and national and local charities, to embed our content into practice for use with families they work with.
We work with external commercial companies who help promote our content through their outreach work in communities.

The successful candidates will attend many events across the UK to meet our audiences - parent/caregivers/families and professionals in early years.
You will also be organising, managing logistics and the delivery of our live events. You will develop and plan content for them, as well as creating digital content for resources and the web.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

We've begun to establish CBeebies Parenting as part of the CBeebies family and we're now looking to further our position in the UK parenting landscape. You'll be joining a vibrant team as we begin our first forays into YouTube, continue to develop our podcast offer and explore how to use existing CBeebies brands to speak to parents directly for the first time.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• To work effectively with other departments, suppliers & partners (internal & external) ensuring the BBC maintains excellent relationships throughout
• Manage many relationships with leading UK organisations - with excellent organisational skills
• To support the development, management and creation of content on a variety of platforms
• To ensure all content is of a first class standard: thoroughly researched and accurate, excellent attention to detail and in-keeping with audience needs and expectations
• To ensure that output complies with BBC editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards, and that BBC Health and Safety policy is observed
• To be technically proficient to the requirements of the role
• Direct and coordinate resources in a busy, production environment
• Nurture and develop junior members of the team
• To ensure BBC output reflects the needs of our audiences.
• Creative self-starter with initiative and tenacity and ability to see how their work fits in with the wider needs of the department and with external partners
• To use a variety of specialist production skills in a multi-skilled environment

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Great communication skills with proven experience of working with a range of contributors from families to experts and talent
• A self-starter, using initiative and tenacity to find new contacts in early years and parenting fields to help build new relationships. You will learn to explain our content in detail for organisations to embed and use in their practice.
• Strong knowledge of the UK parenting content landscape and will be audience-focused with everything you do, with an awareness of the needs and demands of both parents / caregivers, healthcare and early years professionals - along with the ability to generate, research and produce ideas that are supportive and engaging
• The flexibility to work across a range of content to help produce an innovative, content-driven website and social media presence, with audience insight right at the heart
• Good knowledge and experience of using content management systems to create web pages
• The skills to edit and produce short films and graphics for web and social media, combined with experience of creating web and social media content

DESIRABLE:

• Experience of developing and delivering presentations

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.