Production Coordinator - EXTEND

BBC team

Description

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join our dynamic content team as a Production Coordinator, where you'll drive the delivery of standout digital content across self-funded and brand-funded projects. Supporting both creative development and commercial activations, you'll ensure smooth production through precise budgeting, scheduling, and partner coordination – laying a key role in bringing bold ideas to life.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC Studios Digital Brands don’t just reach audiences – we move them. We cultivate and amplify fandoms behind some of the world’s most iconic franchises, including Bluey, BBC Earth, Doctor Who, and Gen-Z comedy channel Funny Parts. We run over 90 channels generating 14 billion views each year, encouraging audiences to watch wherever and whenever they choose, giving us more YouTube watch time than all other UK broadcasters combined.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
  • Production Planning & Budgeting: Supports scheduling, budgeting, and forecasting in line with BBC frameworks, ensuring value for money and efficient use of resources.
  • Resource & Location Coordination: Assists in sourcing production resources and locations early, and helps onboard freelancers and indie production companies.
  • Compliance & Rights Management: Ensures adherence to BBC policies, legal and regulatory standards, and secures all necessary rights for content delivery.
  • Operational & Administrative Support: Manages post-production paperwork, metadata, and provides general administrative support to production teams.
  • Safety, Sustainability & Innovation: Maintains a safe working environment, promotes environmental responsibility, and encourages diversity and new production technologies.

Requirements

Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
  • Demonstrable experience of carrying out a logistical coordinating role within a digital-first content production team, ideally experience of working on commercial or brand-funded digital content.
  • Knowledge of delivering a range of/elements of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions, where necessary having worked on location, with crews and production teams with a strong knowledge of how productions are managed.
  • Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with an understanding of the technology used on productions.
  • Able to use and advise on production systems and can adopt new technologies.
  • Experience in preparing, managing, setting and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets and buying/booking resources.
Desired But Not Required
  • Demonstrates interest in the BBC and the wider digital content industry.
  • Interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to establish and maintain effective relations with a wide range of contacts.
  • Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to use own initiative with assurance using judgment to escalate where necessary.
  • Able to consider and propose new ways of working to improve existing processes.
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.

Benefits & Perks

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £29,500 + London Weighting (£5,319) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

How to apply

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The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world. We do this across: - A portfolio of television services, including the UK’s most-watched channel BBC One, the pioneering online youth service BBC Three, and our multi award-winning channels for children, as well as national and regional television programmes and services across England. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - Ten UK-wide radio networks, providing the best live music broadcasting in the UK, as well as speech radio which informs, educates and entertains. We also have two national radio services each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and 39 local radio stations across England and the Channel Islands, providing an invaluable and unique service to listeners across the UK - Our digital services including BBC News, Sport, Weather CBBC and CBeebies, iPlayer and BBC Sounds, BBC Red Button and our vast archive - BBC World Service television, radio and online on more than 40 languages

Job Details

Posted on Jul 24

London, England, UK

Hybrid

Full time

Junior