Researcher

Package Description

Job ref: 22151

Band: B

Contract details: 2x FTC/attachment roles starting  May 2025 - January 2026

Location: Media City, Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working.

Salary: £24,300 - £29,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact Reasonable Adjustments.  For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

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.

Job Introduction

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.

Our aims are to:

• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize.

• Support and inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming; through BBC Teach.

• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns such as BBC micro:bit –the next gen and 500 Words.

Main Responsibilities

BBC Bitesize is looking for x2 Researchers to support the Producers and Assistant Producers in the delivery of Bitesize Futures; supporting the creation, review, organisation and uploading of question content to a CMS system and making content across the web, app and email newsletters.

You will have experience of creating online content as well as a track record of generating great ideas which become a reality.

You will be able to set up and run user-testing or audience insight sessions and have basic project management skills and an ability to deliver key elements of larger project management workflows.

You will also have the ability to accurately edit text for publication and experience of working with writers and/or commissioning written content and experience of digital editing software.

Are you the right candidate?

Key skills required

• Experience of creating high quality online digital content for web and/or app

• Able to initiate, set-up and run user-testing and/or audience insight sessions

• Understanding of SEO and how it impacts content discovery

• Experience of using an online CMS system to edit and create content

• Able to work within defined project-management workflows to deliver their elements of complex digital projects effectively

• Experience of commissioning infographics, and/or written content from specialist writers and of accurately editing large volumes of text for publication

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.

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