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Job introduction
BBC’s 500 Words, the UK’s most successful children’s story writing competition, which celebrates creativity and imagination rather than spelling, punctuation or grammar, returns again this autumn. Since it was first launched by Chris Evans on The Radio 2 Breakfast Show in 2011 the competition has received over a million stories.
The competition is now a pan BBC initiative run by BBC Teach and hosted by BBC Breakfast and The One Show. Last year’s competition was supported by ten external partners who helped not only deliver prizes but increase the reach and impact of the competition, ensuring children of all abilities and backgrounds entered.
BBC Education is recruiting a digital Assistant Producer to help deliver 500 Words 2024 . This will involve supporting the producer in the day to day running of the competition, including the extensive judging process, gathering prizes and organising author visits to schools.
Main responsibilities
Working closely with the producer, the competition assistant producer will have the editorial and digital experience to set up and ensure the smooth running of the competition, which includes overseeing thousands of story submissions, communicating clearly with thousands of volunteer judges as well as supporting the extensive judging and verification process.
The role will also include working with partners to help promote the competition, gather competition prizes as well as organising author visits to schools.
Are you the right candidate?
- Excellent project management skills including extremely strong attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines often under pressure
- Strong digital skills including knowledge of using content management systems as well as photoshop and premier pro .
- Excellent editorial skills both written and verbal
- Collaborative and proactive team member who has experience building relationships with internal and external partners as well as working with 3rd party suppliers
- Audience- focused in everything you do, with the ability to generate ideas to create content which is appropriate in style and tone.
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