Teacher Engagement Researcher

Package Description

Job Reference: 23492

Band: B

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment, starting in June 2025 till 27/02/26.

Location: Salford (Home/Office - Hybrid)

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.

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.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HRBP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

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 & inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming;
• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns such as 500 Words and BBC micro:bit.

Main Responsibilities

BBC Education is looking for a researcher to support the Assistant Producer, events and engagement in the delivery of regular newsletters to teachers and in the organisation of key teacher-facing events and industry events.

• You will write copy for the newsletters, source images and design the layout of these newsletters, working with the teams to ensure accuracy of copy/messaging.
• You will collate the stats for all newsletters, analysing performance and sharing performance reports with the relevant teams.
• You will assist with the organisation of teacher-facing events including BETT and the Festival of Education helping to order merchandise, design posters, co-ordinate registration and helping with other logistics.
• Good communication skills to liaise with teachers, internal and external stakeholders is essential.
• Someone who can have ideas about the best methods and times to reach teachers would be an advantage.
• You should have a passion for education, be keen to learn and have a proactive, can do attitude.

Are you the right Candidate?

• Strong writing skills
• Photo editing experience
• Experience of event organisation
• Ability to work with both internal and external teams and partners
• Ability to generate ideas
• Proven ability to time-manage and juggle lots of different tasks
• Good communication skills
• An eye for design

Other Desirable Skills

• Ability to work with talent and contributors
• Experience of adding subtitles to short films/video
• Passion for engaging with hard to reach audiences and the BBC’s values

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