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As our new Assistant Communications Officer, you will support the communications team in protecting and enhancing the BBC’s reputation and raising awareness of services and programmes internationally.

• Support communications colleagues in publicising BBC content and services internationally.
• Handle and respond to inquiries from relevant stakeholders where appropriate.
• Contribute to communications material – writing, editing and uploading where relevant (i.e. briefings, pictures, presentations, press releases, programme information, previews and promotional clips).
• Carry out tasks such as media monitoring and raising purchase orders.
• Contribute to evaluation of work, collecting data and working with colleagues to examine the impact of communications work.
• Assist with the planning, organising and delivery of press conferences, briefing and other corporate events where required. Provide additional administrative assistance and project support to stakeholders and colleagues.
• Support the running of social media channels and assist with the production of assets for use online and in social media

Essential

• Ability to work to tight deadlines often under pressure.
• Very good written and spoken communications including good English spelling, punctuation and grammar.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and social skills, both face-to-face and on the phone.
• Computer literate with strong office skills including the ability translate complex data into easy to understand materials.
• Able to learn new IT skills quickly and adapt to different systems, including digital editing and uploading to websites.
• A good working knowledge and use of social media for promoting content and news stories.
• Organised and focused with good attention to detail.

Desirable

• Some experience in communications environment.
• Experience of organising events
• Experience of writing communications materials, for publication by a wide range of outlets to short notice and tight deadlines.
• Good knowledge of the media including print, broadcast and online channels.

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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.

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Band: B
Contract type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London

We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us on [email protected] with ref: BBC/TP/XXX in the subject.

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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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.