Producer - Words

Position: Producer - 500 Words
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JOB DETAILS  JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE:
Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time (04 May 26 - 16 March 27)
DEPARTMENT:
Children's & Education, 500 Words

LOCATION:

Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £40,000 - £50,000 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. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE  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.
BBC Education is recruiting a Producer to deliver this year's BBC 500 Words, the UK's most successful children's story writing competition, which celebrates creativity and imagination rather than spelling, punctuation or grammar. The competition, for primary school-aged children, is run by Bitesize and supported by programmes across the BBC. It is made in collaboration with variety of external partners who help increase the reach and impact of the competition and inspire children of all abilities and backgrounds to enter.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will be running the UK's most successful children's story writing competition, inspiring primary aged pupils of all abilities to have fun writing their stories and not worry about spelling, punctuation or grammar. You'll gain hands on experience working with a wide range of teams across the BBC as well as our invaluable 500 Words external partners. You will also gain a thorough understanding of how BBC competitions are run ensuring it is fully compliant.
YOUR

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Delivering the competition, ensuring it runs smoothly, is fully compliant and within BBC editorial and legal guidelines and overseeing the extensive judging process.
Ensuring the competition website has all the relevant competition information, inspires children of all abilities to enter, reflects our diverse audience and supports teachers in the classroom.
Identifying opportunities to increase the reach of the competition.
Working closely with a wide variety of partners (internal and external) to ensure the competition is not only successful but reaches children of all abilities and backgrounds.
Leading, motivating and supporting a small team, ensuring that the editorial vision is communicated and understood.
Creating and over-seeing the delivery of a promotional strategy to schools.
Ensuring the competition is delivered to time and within budget.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
Extensive experience of developing or delivering educational campaigns for a school aged audience.
Track record of producing, commissioning and complying content for a school aged audience - e.g. films and articles.
Demonstrable experience of managing and curating website content with strong editorial judgement and excellent attention to detail.
You'll be extremely collaborative, possess strong negotiating and influencing skills and have extensive partnership experience, both internal and external, to ensure projects are not only impactful but have a wide reach.
You'll have the ability to lead and motivate teams to develop creative content which is not only inclusive but engages diverse audiences as well as actively managing team performance.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
This role requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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