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Job Reference: 18926
Band: E
Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 Full time continuing role
Location: Belfast Broadcasting House - this is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the Reasonable Adjustments Team. For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

Job Introduction

The Commissioning & Acquisitions Team at BBC Children’s identifies and secures the widest range of top quality content from both the UK and internationally to satisfy the needs of our modern, sophisticated young audience. We reach our audience via a wide range of platforms including the CBeebies and CBBC channels, i Player, mobile and on-line, offering an enormous choice of programming animations like Hey Duggee and Jo Jo and Gran Gran to dramas like Biff & Chip and Olga da Polga. Uniquely, we also feature a world-class portfolio of children’s Factual like Let’s Go For a Walk, Numberblocks, Something Special and Andy’s Adventures and comedies like Justin’s House and Waffle The Wonder Dog, and stand-out family event programming such as the CBeebies Specials, CBeebies Prom, Panto and Shakespeare.
This is an opportunity to join one of the best and most successful Children’s content departments in the world.
We are currently seeking 1 full time Commissioning Executive based in Northern Ireland to the join the team on a continuing basis.

Main Responsibilities

The Main responsibilities of the Commissioning Executive are:

• To work closely with the Senior Head of Commissioning and the Commissioning Editor to identify, develop, commission and deliver top quality, original animated content from suppliers both in the UK and around the world.
• Ensure that the development of ideas meets the needs of our modern audience and that content is appropriate to its target age group and reflects the diverse nature and needs of our audiences
• To be an ambassador for CBeebies and a touch point for the Animation community within Northern Ireland, rest of UK and globally.
• Being responsible for giving feedback on designated current series in a timely manner whilst maintaining a respectful relationship with indies.
• Strong decision maker with the ability to articulate reasoning behind editorial choices.
• Good sense of the modern commercial, business and co-production environment.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidates will have:

• Excellent editorial and creative judgement with an established track record in Children’s commissioning or production (0-6 years old) with a particular focus on Animation

• Thorough understanding of the audience and wider competitive kids’ landscape and current trends.

• Good production knowledge with a proven record of successful programme making across a variety of animation styles and genres.

• Experience of a production pipeline from development through to delivery.

• Experience of working with complex co-production partnerships and financing deal structure

• Sound editorial judgment and knowledge of editorial policy and fair trading issues.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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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, 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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