Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Camera Operations: Provide camera support across studio, location and outside broadcast productions, operating and rigging a range of camera equipment to capture high-quality visual content.
• Broadcast Vision and IP Operations: Operate vision mixing equipment to a medium level of craft complexity. Carry out source switching, mixing, keying and effects, with or without directorial instruction. Assist with the rigging and operation of IP-based production and streaming equipment.
• Assistant Graphics and Postproduction Editor: Provide post-production editing and graphics support across multiple production teams to support programme delivery. Working collaboratively across creative and production teams, contributing to high-quality, audience-focused content.
• Floor Managing: Act as the Director’s representative on the studio floor, coordinating presenters, contributors, guests and production staff to ensure productions run safely, efficiently and to schedule. Maintain studio discipline throughout rehearsals, recordings and live transmissions.
• Audio Operations: Provide audio support for radio, studio and outside broadcast productions, ensuring high-quality sound balance, recording, editing and playback for straightforward programme outputs. The post holder also undertakes location recording, sound assistant duties and equipment setup while ensuring artistic, technical and safety standards are maintained at all times.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in a live broadcast environment
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Ability to quickly assess critical problems under pressure and to control and manage available resources to achieve a work around.
• Good technical knowledge of broadcast systems and infrastructure and studio/OB facilities
• Interest in IP infrastructure and workflow

Desired But Not Required

• Awareness of BBC policy on health, safety and security
• Good understanding of the language and terminology of television and the geography of a studio floor and the layout of cameras
• Successful completion of basic sound training courses or equivalent
• Experience of managing a media library
• Editorial awareness and an understanding of BBC News priorities and objectives

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

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Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.