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Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of 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.
Job introduction
Reporting to a Media Scheduler, the Assistant Media Scheduler is responsible for scheduling all BBC promotional items on a given service in line with the marketing, editorial and scheduling timescales.
Responsible for applying the principles of media planning, marketing and advertising, and using all available audience data to create the most audience focused promotions schedule. Responsible for ensuring schedules are editorially sound, meets all the requirements of transmission and are fit for broadcast.
Main responsibilities
- Responsible for the scheduling and optimising of BBC promotional media content across all platforms.
- Responsible for achieving campaign and cross-promotion targets.
- Responsible for monitoring and tracking channel playout, informing Media Schedulers, Media Portfolio Leads and Campaign Planners of performance/issues.
- Supports in identifying cross promotion opportunities to navigate viewers/listeners to other BBC services/events.
- Supports Media Schedulers to ensure a consistent approach with the promotional content of junctions.
- Supports Media Schedulers to ensure that schedule works to time and meets all the requirements of transmission.
- Ensures the junctions are editorially sound.
- Supports the handover of all aspects of the junction schedule to Playout teams.
- Extract, interpret and apply media research to provide audience focus to the whole scheduling process.
- Provides research data and analysis to support Media Planning to predict future audience levels, enabling optimal use of promotional airtime.
Are you the right candidate?
- A passion in and knowledge of television/radio/digital output
- An understanding of media research and marketing within a broadcast environment.
- Numerate with excellent attention to detail,
- Good time management and able to work to deadlines.
- An appreciation of scheduling and creative media solutions.
- PC literate with experience of spreadsheet analysis and creation.
- Understanding of the editorial and transmission requirements of a broadcast or media schedule.
- An informed interest in developments in audience research techniques and systems.
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of Ofcom guidelines.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
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. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
