Scheduling Coordinator

Package Description

Job Reference: 22218

Band: C

Salary: £27,600 - £37,600 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 4 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Office Base is London.

Interviews for this role will be week commencing 24th March 2025

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, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

We are looking for a Senior Scheduling Co-Ordinator to join the BBC Scheduling team on a four month basis. This is an exciting opportunity to support our linear schedule, and understand how our work fits in with the broader Channels and iPlayer team.

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to a Head of Scheduling and working closely with the Schedule Manager and the Playout Planner, this role is responsible for data integrity in the scheduling and planning systems, ensuring communication and distribution of information across the wider team.

• Create and maintain all titles in the system (commissions and programmes yet to be approved) and ensure that all details are correct and current (e.g. delivery, budget, supplier, quota management, funding, hours, funding type, airing order, titles).
• Work in partnership across teams to ensure pan TV consistency in processes, reporting and systems.
• Help maintain ‘off schedule’ plans, providing assistance to production teams delivering content.
• Make recommendations to scheduling content in teamwork with Schedule Managers, taking into account compliance and suitability for our audience.
• To be the authority regarding certain detailed scheduling attributes (unique identifiers, standby programmes and transmission titles) in the context of the schedule handover and post-handover processes.
• Ensure programme delivery dates are in line with output and service needs and are realistic. To be aware of any likely implications of delivery date changes and ensure that these are agreed only where necessary and communicated to all relevant parties.
• Source and agree appropriate content by considering scheduling, clearance and cost issues.
• Act as key liaison with internal stakeholders including commissioning, production, playout and the delivery team, co-ordinating and communicating accurate information.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate will have an eye for detail and the ability to manage large volumes of information and data in spreadsheets and scheduling software, demonstrating an understanding of the importance of data quality and accuracy. They will have good working knowledge of television planning and scheduling processes, and an interest in the channel’s content.

With a highly organised approach to own workload, they will maintain awareness of key dates/deadlines such as programme delivery and alerts others to key issues on own initiative.

The ideal candidate will have a flexible and collaborative approach demonstrating an ability to access and act on changing priorities and good communication and interpersonal skills sufficient to establish and sustain credibility with senior management and colleagues across all areas of the BBC.

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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Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.