Creative Producer, 6 month FTC, BBC StoryWorks London, England
Job description
We’re looking for an energetic Creative Producer to utilize their creative drive, and collaborative approach in our innovative video production team within BBC StoryWorks. Could this be you?
Reporting to the Executive Producer, the Creative Producer’s objective will be to support the Executive Producer and Strategy team across a multitude of projects from pitch to delivery. You’ll attend shoot days to ensure creative excellence, produce excellent video content, and work with the wider team on pitch responses, initial creative development and ideation.
About us:
BBC StoryWorks is the branded content studio of BBC Global News. Building on our century-long pedigree as the world’s most trusted storytellers, we work with brands to create beautifully crafted stories that move and inspire curious minds, across platforms and across the globe.
We produce and deliver across a variety of platforms and formats from short form film, video series, podcasts, and digital executions. As the commercial arm of the BBC, we work with brands to create partnerships which connect them with our curious and globally minded audience.
- Manage the end to end production process across a variety of internal and external teams.
- Collaborate with the wider team on pitch responses, initial creative development, and ideation.
- Work creatively with internal and external stakeholders, maintaining excellent relationships.
- Diligence in budgeting and scoping of projects during the discovery phase.
- Multitasking and troubleshooting on more than one project at a time.
- Responsible for ensuring all necessary rights are acquired for the complete delivery of the production(s) and escalating any issues at the earliest stage.
- Contribution towards the build of presentation decks for pitch and production.
- Client facing presentations and pitches.
- Produce excellent video content from development to publication.
- You’ll be passionate about video production, and will have a keen interest in the media industry.
- It is essential that you can use your initiative with confidence, using judgement to escalate where necessary.
- You’ll have an excellent attention to detail, and are comfortable working to tight targets and deadlines. Your time management skills will be enviable, and you’re able to prioritise conflicting workloads effectively.
- We’re looking for an individual with working knowledge and understanding of compliance and Advertising standards, ideally you’ll have experience working with production management systems and within APA guidelines.
- You’ll have a creative head on your shoulders, and will have proven experience in producing creative campaigns, from idea to delivery. This experience should be gained from a creative agency, production or advertising environment.
- IT proficiency is a must, you will be confident in this area including a range of software packages.
- It would be desirable if you had knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
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 in the document attached below.
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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Package Description
Band:C
Contract type: 6 month FTC
Location: London Television Centre (hybrid)
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.
