Junior Production Management Assistant

The In-House Children’s Productions team produce award winning, multi-platform content for all of our young audiences on CBeebies, CBBC, iPlayer and BBC Sounds. The In House Production Unit supports all multi-genre, multi-platform production across the entire In House Production Slate. Children’s In House Productions are seeking a Junior Production Management Assistant with no previous experience required.

The role will work across the unit providing administrative assistance to a variety of different productions across Comedy & Entertainment, Pre-School and Factual.

Main Responsibilities

The Junior Production Management Assistant will:

• Deliver high quality support to managers, building and maintaining a close relationship with the management team.
• Provide efficient and effective diary management. This includes organising and scheduling meetings, calls, conferences and events, booking rooms and equipment/hospitality, creating agendas, preparing documents in a timely manner, and writing and distributing detailed minutes.
• Co-ordinate logistics such as travel, accommodation, hotels and hospitality, whilst ensuring that all bookings are made within the parameters set by BBC policy.
• General administrative tasks such as managing annual leave requests for the department, and proactively flag potential diary conflicts. You will also be using BBC systems for purchasing requests.
• Additionally you will be expected to assist with cover across the division, covering peaks of work, annual leave and sickness etc.

Are you the right candidate?

• You will be interested in learning about end to end Children’s TV production, be passionate about developing a career in Production Management and willing to learn through gaining experience in a busy department.
• You will be pro-active and enthusiastic, with proven problem solving, organisation and planning skills.
• Have experience of working in a fast paced environment, managing different tasks and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to establish, maintain and manage effective relationships within a diverse team.        
• Working experience of various packages in MS Office e.g. Word and Excel. Strong Powerpoint and Photoshop skills are desirable.
• Ability to use own initiative with confidence, using judgement to escalate where necessary.
• Able to work collaboratively and willing to contribute to ad hoc projects.
• Previous administration work would be desirable but not essential.

This role requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment.

Please note that the application process will only ask you to upload a CV. Please therefore ensure that your CV highlights as far as possible the above skills and experience.

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