Production Co-ordinator
Description
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Are you passionate about Audio Comedy and experienced as a Production Coordinator? The Production Coordinator plays a vital role in delivering high-quality audio comedy content by managing the end-to-end production process. You will act as the central hub between production team members, artists and contributors, crew, suppliers, and the production office. This will include providing support to the Executive Producer, Production Executive, Production Managers & the Producers in the team. With a strong grasp of production workflows and a passion for comedy and audio, you will support the creation of content while maintaining schedules, budgets, and clear communication across all stages of production. You will be expected to take initiative, balance multiple projects, work independently within a small team, and report daily to the Production Manager.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join a dynamic, award-winning production management team at BBC Studios Audio. This role will see you embedded in the Audio Comedy & Entertainment production team, where your passion for audio comedy will thrive as you work on hit content like The News Quiz, The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr, Strong Message Here, and You Heard It Here First.
We make over 120 hours of content each year, making numerous shows for BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds, and increasingly for commercial commissioners like Netflix, Audible, Wondery, and Spotify.
You will contribute to innovative new formats and beloved legacy titles, and be part of a supportive, inclusive culture that values creativity and professional growth. With opportunities to work on high-profile projects and develop your career in a world-class environment, this is your chance to make a lasting impact in audio production.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Set up and co-ordinate technical facilities, equipment and venues for live recording, book crew, obtain quotes from suppliers, deal with talent agents, and monitor production spend.
- Ensure necessary rights are cleared for underlying copyright, archive, performance, and literary copyright for the programme, including commercial use, while maintaining written records.
- Assist in studio and on-location rehearsals and recordings, score quiz and panel shows on stage when required, deal with artists and contributors, undertake operational duties under supervision.
- Conduct artist availability checks, liaise with agents, arrange child licenses if necessary, oversee script supervision and formatting, and manage accommodation and transport for writers, cast, and crew.
- Collate information to produce call sheets, schedules, and risk assessments while managing programme administration routines such as music reporting, completing PasBs, assisting the Producer and EP, and maintaining compliance with BBC and production guidelines.
- Have an awareness and understanding of the financial constraints of each programme budget when finding resources and negotiating deals, and handle financial tasks such as: raising programme numbers; contracting crew via Smartbook; monitoring programme spend; updating forecasts in eCat; raising requisitions using MyBusiness; robust recording and monitoring of programme spend in cost logs; use of SAP reports; and reporting to the Production Executive and Production Manager.
- Oversee final programme delivery to networks or publishers, undertake admin work on programmes scheduled for repeat, and manage social media content uploads, including stills and visual elements.
Requirements
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- A demonstrable interest in the Comedy industry, particularly Audio Comedy and Entertainment, both Radio and Podcasts
- Considerable experience working as a Production Coordinator, ideally in the Audio space, with a clear understanding of all stages in the production process, including completing full range of production paperwork
- The ability to demonstrate you have business and finance skills with an understanding of working to a production budget
- Experience of setting up recordings, events or shoots and being present for production days
- A keen eye for detail and able to juggle a number of different shows at once in studio and on location
Desired But Not Required
- A knowledge of grassroots comedy writers and performers
- Experience of obtaining and clearing archive material and music
- Experience working on visualised content for podcasts, digital, or TV
- Experience using systems such as SAP, MyBusiness, BPC, and eCat
- Experience supporting studio and location recordings, including operational duties
Benefits & Perks
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £29,000 - £46,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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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.