YouTube Researcher

Package Description

Job Reference: 22685

Band: B

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment for 6 months, starting June 1st.

Location: Salford (Home/Office - Hybrid)

Salary: £24,300- £31,300 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.

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Job Introduction

We’re looking for creative and strategically minded YouTube Researcher to join our YouTube team within the BBC Children’s and Education department. This is an exciting opportunity to craft engaging content that amplify our BBC Children’s and Education brands, including Bitesize and Newsround, on the world’s biggest video platform.

You will be part of a team that is central to communicating our brand values, delivering our public service, driving reach and growth and supporting the launch of BBC programmes, services and initiatives across our BBC Children’s and Education YouTube channels.

Main Responsibilities

• Assist in planning, scripting and editing video content for Bitesize and Newsround YouTube channels.
• Repurpose existing BBC content into engaging YouTube content in shorts and longer form video formats.
• Schedule and upload content, creating engaging thumbnails and SEO optimised title and description metadata.
• Support the planning and set up of YouTube live streams.
• Help track content and channel performance using YouTube studio and analytics tools, looking out for trends and sharing insights with the wider team.

Are you the right candidate?

• Experience using editing and design software – ideally Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects)
• Understanding of YouTube content and what works for younger viewers, including top trends in news and education content for kids.
• Organised, proactive and up for pitching in whenever needed in a busy and fast paced team.
• Knowledge of YouTube products and features, including live streams, shorts and podcasting.
• A keen interest in data and audience research and how to translate it into creative ideas.

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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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