Production Management Assistant

Package Description

Job Reference: 17779

Band: B

Salary: £24,520 - £36,360 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 1 x 6-month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Dock House, MediaCity, Salford

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

BBC Audio is looking for a dynamic and engaged PMA to support the Production Management Community - covering a variety of tasks: including responsibility for the smooth running of production offices and being a key point of contact for the Head of Audio North, Production Managers and support to the Production Coordinators.

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the Audio North Production Managers and Unit Manager, the Production Management Assistant will assist the team in BBC Audio North. Day to day tasks would include studio & workshop and meeting room bookings, managing IT and phone assets, laptop allocation, locker allocation, car parking allocation, as well as helping with staff rotas and annual leave requests, databases and IT requests and logging sickness absence. The PMA organises id passes and meets and greets visitors to the department and books hospitality for large working meetings and events.

You’ll also assist the production coordinators with travel and accommodation bookings, events accreditation and visa requests for production teams as well as production paperwork and music reporting in Proteus (this is a Radio specific system which is used for all aspects of programme paperwork), liaising with Facilities Management, ordering office supplies, allocating production equipment and being the first port of call for any questions the team members may have. You’ll also be contributing to, and helping to implement, practical actions to reduce environmental impact throughout production.

Are you the right candidate?

Our ideal candidate would be enthusiastic about radio and podcasts, be pro-active and have good organisational skills - the ability to multi-task and prioritise, and work independently, as well as being a good team player. You will have some experience of providing administrative support, demonstrable experience of working collaboratively and supporting a team / working with other people with well-developed written and verbal communication skills.

You will ideally also have experience of using BBC systems and MS Office 365 or the ability to adapt to new technologies and a willingness to learn new skills. Your Excel skills will be assessed as part of the interview process.

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.

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