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Are you an experienced Production Manager? Passionate about Drama? Then this is the role for you!

It's an exciting time to be part of our team with all of our award-winning Continuing Dramas that brings audiences together week after week. From EastEnders, Doctors and Casualty to River City and Pobol y Cwm, our programmes remain a constant source of gripping entertainment, featuring cliff-hanger storylines and much-loved characters with whom our viewers have grown up.

River City is BBC Scotland’s flagship drama with the residents of Sheildinch having experienced countless births, deaths and marriages with always more drama to come! We have also featured Scottish actors such as Dawn Steele, Alex Ferns, Frank Gallagher, Barbara Rafferty and Sam Heughan, who have all found their way to Montego Street.

In partnership with the River City editorial team, the Production Manager is responsible for managing on a day to day basis all blocks through preparation, crewing and shoot. You’ll ensure successful delivery of the programme to budget and schedule without sacrificing creative integrity through effective planning, monitoring and control of the production.

Maintaining a safe and healthy working environment at all times, escalating any issues or areas of concern is one of the priorities in this role, whilst also proactively looking for ways of improving efficiency within production and promote diversity.

In addition to these duties you will be expected to support the Line Producer by taking on projects, such as Albert.

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following –

• Proven experience of delivering productions across Drama, preferably in Continuing Drama, on time and on budget
• Experience of supervising or line managing of Production Staff
• Experience of monitoring and managing health and safety on a production
• Demonstrable working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with a level of technical understanding to enable the most efficient production of content
• Effective project management skills and proven experience of delivering projects
• Able to manage interpersonal relationships effectively and operate with others in a diverse team
• Interpersonal and communication aptitudes sufficient to establish and maintain effective relations with a wide range of contacts
• Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines
• Strong negotiating skills, able to influence, manage and negotiate deals and contracts in line with BBC policies and guidelines
• Demonstrates team leadership skills - able to lead, develop and motivate teams across a range of output
• Knowledge and passion for Continuing Drama, especially for River City

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Contract: 12 Months FTC / Attachment

Band: D

Location: BBC Dumbarton, Glasgow

**Please note that this is a standard Studios Production contract and potentially can involve up to 55 hours per week **

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/224227/66452 in the subject.

We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates.

• 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.