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Job Reference:18211
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £43,000 ( pro rata) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role – part time (21 hours a week)
Location: BBC Radio Humberside, Hull. 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, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction

The BBC is globally recognised for its outstanding content and stand out journalism, and now you have the chance to be a part of our team. We are currently searching for a dedicated and talented Weekend Breakfast Show Producer to join our dynamic team based in Hull. If you possess a passion for crafting high-quality audio content we want to hear from you.

Our mission at BBC Radio Humberside is to entertain, inform, and educate our audience here in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, but we aspire to go beyond that. We aim to surprise and delight our listeners every day. The weekend breakfast show is presented by Fiona Mills and is broadcast across BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

This role will be 21 hours a week and involve outputting the show on a Saturday and Sunday.

Main Responsibilities

• You will be a motivated and experienced audio producer, capable of creating distinctive content for all platforms, both linear and digital.
• You will need to be full of ideas and be able to juggle priorities and be calm under pressure.
• You will need to be highly creative and organised.
• You will contribute to the planning and brainstorming of ideas for our weekend breakfast show.
• You will when appropriate, contribute to other BBC services and develop content for social media.
• You will assist in content preparation prior to broadcast and meet tight deadlines while upholding the highest editorial standards.
• You will be proficient in using BBC Open Media and Dira! Playout systems and will also have excellent audio editing skills.
• You will understand and support the BBC's digital content strategy and identify the best audio content for use across all platforms.
  

Are you the right candidate?

• Experience of live studio production
• Essential knowledge of Radio Production and Outside Broadcasts.
• Strong planning skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
• Excellent audio editing skills and knowledge of Open Media and Dira!
• Excellent interpersonal skills dealing with BBC talent and teams as well as external contributors
• A broad network of contacts in various fields, including but not limited to entertainment, politics, business, and academia.
• Creativity and problem-solving skills to secure guests who align with the show's objectives.
• Great eye for a story!
  

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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