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North TV News Operations is a team of approximately 60 people who provide a range of technical and craft services to BBC News, BBC England and Digital productions, based at MediaCityUK.

We work as a creative, multiskilled team across an exciting and wide range of output including BBC Breakfast, BBC North West Tonight and BBC News. The team provides the gallery and studio team for BBC Breakfast every day of the year as well as regularly working across the country on location and outside broadcasts. We also output four regional programmes for North West Tonight every weekday, as well as weekend output. Work is varied, lively and great fun.

You will work closely with a colleague to schedule and administer the operations team, act as fleet management contact for operational vehicles, including booking of services, repairs, and maintaining relevant paperwork (driver logs/defect reports) and assist the operational management team with administration tasks and bookings. You will raise payments and purchase orders for freelance/casual staff and operational kit and work closely with Production Management teams in other areas of the business as required, defining operational staffing requirements. Other elements of the role include providing input into, and scheduling the operational training plan, acting as training booker for the team, running training reports when required and acting as ITC for the operations team.

The successful candidate will have experience of building rotas and using scheduling systems, making payments and purchase orders and have a good knowledge of conditions of service/working time directive. You will have strong IT skills and will be comfortable using the WorkPlace scheduling system. You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to manage relationships at all levels, in addition to being flexible and highly organised with the ability to prioritise effectively and multi-task with good attention to detail. Experience of or an interest in fleet management is also important.

For further information please contact Andy Hill ([email protected]) or Jan Hancock ([email protected])

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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, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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Band: C

Contract: Fixed Term Full Time

Location: Salford

Application process: You will be asked to fill in a diversity questionnaire which is confidential and not seen by the hiring manager. You will then be asked to:

• upload your CV

• complete an eligibility questionnaire

• answer questions specific to the role

You are eligible to apply for an internal role if you are either on a BBC Continuing (Permanent) contract, a BBC Fixed Term contract or a worker contract and you have worked continuously for six months

Only internal staff are eligible to apply for the role on an attachment basis. You need to be on a continuing (permanent) or fixed-term contract. You need to have worked for the BBC for more than one year. You can find out more on our attachments page.

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 holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Please note that the application process will require you to upload a CV and complete the online questionnaire(s). There is no requirement to attach a covering letter or complete the additional careers hub fields (Personal Statement/Skills/Portfolio sections).

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