Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office base is Cardiff/Caerdydd. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working. Working days are Monday to Friday
Salary: c. £25,609 (according to skills and experience)
Job Introduction:
In 2021, the BBC announced plans to move even more of our productions to bases across the UK. The creation of BBC Audio Wales and the West of England has seen teams in Cardiff and Bristol lead the way with a variety of programmes and podcasts for Radio 3, Radio 4, World Service and BBC Sounds.
This role will work specifically on our arts and music output, covering both features and live concert recordings. Our output includes Radio 3’s daily strand Composer of the Week. Recent concerts have included the Hay Festival lunchtime series and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, and recent Radio 4 features have included the mini series How to Play and documentary Idle Talk: Wales’ Oral Tradition.
BBC Audio has around 670 editorial and technical staff who create and deliver more than 100 hours of original audio every day. Our podcasts and radio programmes are heard across the UK and around the world and we work with some of the biggest names in music, entertainment and journalism. We collaborate with world class partners to deliver social value. This is just a selection of the 22,500 programmes we work on every year - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcaudio.
The Production Co-ordinator provides logistical and co-ordination support to the production team on one or more productions, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
As a Production Co-ordinator you will:
- Work in partnership with editorial colleagues to deliver outstanding, distinctive, multiplatform content by providing the ways to realise editorial ambitions within operational and financial constraints
- Compile pre and post production paperwork, as well as any other programme metadata required
- Clear copyright material for all platforms
- Support both the prep and TX of live programmes
- Book and procure resources required to deliver the programmes
- Provide administrative support for the production office
- Negotiate artist and contributor fees
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven track record of playing a co-ordinating role within a production team
- Demonstrable experience working on radio productions (podcasts, live programmes and outside broadcasts desirable)
- Experience of delivering a range of/parts of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions
- Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with a level of technical awareness
- Excellent organisational and planning skills; able to schedule and prioritise people and activities to meet operational deadlines
- Able to use and advise on production systems and adopt new technologies on productions.
- Knowledge of digital audio workstations, financial & purchasing systems as well as travel & delivery and archiving platforms advantageous
- Know how to identify and source suitable resources and negotiate deals within given parameters
- Business and finance skills; able to prepare, manage and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets
- Knowledge of classical music and the ability to read complex scores is desirable for this role
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