Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• Demonstrable experience providing high-level administrative, coordinator or executive support within a television, media, production or similarly fast-paced creative environment, supporting multiple stakeholders and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Proven experience managing complex diaries, schedules and availability for multiple senior stakeholders, with the ability to anticipate conflicts, identify solutions and maintain operational continuity.
• Significant experience organising and coordinating conferences, workshops, meetings or industry events, including logistics, agenda management, documentation, minute taking and follow-up action tracking.
• Demonstrable experience maintaining detailed trackers, records and documentation, with exceptional attention to detail and a consistent track record of accuracy when handling sensitive or time-critical information.
• Strong organisational skills, with evidence of managing multiple priorities, stakeholders and deadlines simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of work under pressure.
• Experience acting as a central point of contact between departments, building effective relationships and communicating confidently with editorial, production, creative and operational stakeholders at all levels.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Teams and Excel, and experience using planning, scheduling or project-tracking systems to support team operations.

Desirable But Not Required

• Familiarity with supporting editorial or creative teams in a structured, administrative capacity is desirable.
• Demonstrable interest in the operational side of production, with a clear ambition of pursuing a career in production/administrative management.

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.

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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.