Audio Growth & Marketing Coordinator (FTC)
Description
About Bbc Studios Audio
BBC Studios Audio is home to iconic radio, hit podcasts, world-class drama, impactful factual storytelling and specialist science and comedy teams. We use our unique heritage, experience and values to pursue the highest creative ambition. BBC Studios Audio is a major supplier of innovative, creative and purposeful audio to BBC radio networks and BBC Sounds and a proud partner to many other platforms.
THE ROLE
The role of the Audio Growth and Marketing Coordinator is to support podcast marketing and growth activity across BBC Studios, supporting the division to reach more audiences globally with podcast content it produces and distributes, enabling BBC Studios Audio to achieve its business plan objectives.
Responsibilities
- Being a key part of the Audio Distribution team and a core role in how we market and grow podcast titles globally
- Lead on tracking of assets and deliverables for promotional campaigns, including what has been requested, who is responsible for delivering them and when they are due to deliver.
- Support with the set up and tracking of digital campaigns across different owned media types, including audio promotions against podcast inventory, ad inventory on BBC.com, promotional inventory in newsletters and other channels.
- Support the Marketing Manager with drafting and submitting briefs in key marketing assets and facilitating signoff processes, working with creative and production teams.
- Support the Audio Growth Manager with opportunities to support the growth of key podcast priorities, including for cross promotional opportunities with other podcast publishers.
- Assist with asset sourcing and fulfilment to internal and external partners, for both promotion campaign set up and for support of BAU operations in the team.
- Support the organisation and implementation of both owned + paid feed drops for priority show launches.
- Drafting promotional copy across a range of paid, owned and earned channels for podcast marketing campaigns.
- Support the wider Audio team with critical projects and activities that are designed to increase the number of listeners globally who are listening to our podcast content.
- Keeping project documentation, key BAU schedules and decks, and campaign analysis up to date – using Monday.com, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office to organise documents and track progress.
- Coordinate business calendar activities to help monitor delivery, outputs and key industry moments.
- Help cascade information across the wider team to ensure effective communication flow.
- Work closely with BU business support functions across the BBC ensuring that all processes are followed.
- Act as a champion of podcast and audio at BBC Studios
Requirements
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA;
- Demonstrated experience in providing administrative support within a professional setting, preferably within the media sector.
- Organised with ability to prioritise own workload effectively, to coordinate activities and conflicting demands to ensure that tight deadlines are met.
- Good communication skills both orally and in writing, and the ability to target content for the audience.
- Basic analytical skills, with experience of providing MI data reports.
- Ability to work with limited supervision, using own initiative to resolve most problems.
- High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing and collating complex and confidential information
- Passion for podcasts and audio
DESIRABLE CRITERIA;
- Strong computer skills with strong experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Proven ability to work constructively in partnership with a range of individuals.
- Knowledge of wider audio industry.
- Project management experience.
Benefits & Perks
LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .
The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. More information on our D&I plan can be found here .
BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here .
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?
- We offer a competitive salary package
- Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
- 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
- A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
- Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation
How to apply
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**Overview** Bold. British. Creative: that’s BBC Studios. Combining the strengths of the UK’s most-awarded production company with a world-class distributor, we fund, create, distribute and commercialise world-class content for the BBC and other UK and international companies. Our aim is to inspire audiences around the globe with quality content that informs, educates and entertains and to strengthen the BBC, our partners and wider industry both creatively and financially. In the last financial year we achieved revenues of £1.4 billion and returned a record £276 million to the BBC Group, equivalent to around 12% of BBC Content’s total programme spend. We also won 73 awards and secured over 200 nominations. BBC Studios Production was the UK’s most commissioned producer of new content in 2019. We seek to be the best British content company in the world; a first-choice partner and employer, where everyone can flourish and do their best work.