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Package Description
Band: B
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Please note that the role is hybrid and requires the successful candidate to work 3 days from London BBC buildings (alternating Millbank and Broadcasting House).
Interviews WC 27th of May
Job Application Requirements
- CV
- Questionnaire with opportunity to detail experience
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 holiday (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.
Job Introduction
Working in the Business and Production Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to support the business and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365.
The role will work closely with the BBC Political Editor, as well as provide support to the News Content Story teams. In addition, this role will take on secretariat duties to enable the effective running of News Division governance.
Main Responsibilities
The Team Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative and operational assistance to the team which provides a wide range of business support services to editorial and operational teams to enable the business unit to achieve its objectives.
The assistance will include maintaining, efficiently operating and improving a range of office and administrative processes and systems; preparing documents, presentations and other materials; making routine travel and logistical arrangements, bookings and supporting the effective co-ordination and running of team meetings; and preparing, manipulating and analysing data.
The support to the BBC Political Editor will include organising all connections and external meetings with key political contacts, parliamentary and government officials as well as screening and prioritising all forms of incoming communications.
Ongoing you will work with the team to ensure that the team’s administrative and operational support remains fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving team and business needs. In addition this will include processing visa applications, accreditations, expenses and parliamentary passes.
Are you the right person?
- Demonstrable experience of providing administrative assistance, ideally in a team of similar complexity and in the media sector.
- Highly organised with a flexible and proactive approach and an ability to prioritise and to co-ordinate a busy workload to tight deadlines, with the ability to operate on one’s own initiative to proactively address queries and issues.
- High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing, collating and presenting data and information in a range of formats.
- Strong computer skills with solid experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preferably of other administrative systems.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, working well with a range of people at all levels and able to target the communication to the audience, including on complex and confidential matters.
- Capable of developing strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and externally.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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. 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: B
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Please note that the role is hybrid and requires the successful candidate to work 3 days from London BBC buildings (alternating Millbank and Broadcasting House).
Interviews WC 27th of May
Job Application Requirements
- CV
- Questionnaire with opportunity to detail experience
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 holiday (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.
Job Introduction
Working in the Business and Production Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to support the business and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365.
The role will work closely with the BBC Political Editor, as well as provide support to the News Content Story teams. In addition, this role will take on secretariat duties to enable the effective running of News Division governance.
Main Responsibilities
The Team Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative and operational assistance to the team which provides a wide range of business support services to editorial and operational teams to enable the business unit to achieve its objectives.
The assistance will include maintaining, efficiently operating and improving a range of office and administrative processes and systems; preparing documents, presentations and other materials; making routine travel and logistical arrangements, bookings and supporting the effective co-ordination and running of team meetings; and preparing, manipulating and analysing data.
The support to the BBC Political Editor will include organising all connections and external meetings with key political contacts, parliamentary and government officials as well as screening and prioritising all forms of incoming communications.
Ongoing you will work with the team to ensure that the team’s administrative and operational support remains fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving team and business needs. In addition this will include processing visa applications, accreditations, expenses and parliamentary passes.
Are you the right person?
- Demonstrable experience of providing administrative assistance, ideally in a team of similar complexity and in the media sector.
- Highly organised with a flexible and proactive approach and an ability to prioritise and to co-ordinate a busy workload to tight deadlines, with the ability to operate on one’s own initiative to proactively address queries and issues.
- High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing, collating and presenting data and information in a range of formats.
- Strong computer skills with solid experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preferably of other administrative systems.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, working well with a range of people at all levels and able to target the communication to the audience, including on complex and confidential matters.
- Capable of developing strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and externally.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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. 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 .
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