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    You will work alongside our production, HR and recruitment teams to support with administrative tasks for the latest innovation from News UK, TalkTV, which launched in April of this year.

    What You'll Do

    TV Administrative Assistant (6 Month Fixed Term Contract)

    Day to day you will:

    • Support with the onboarding of new employees, freelance crew and apprentices
    • Arrange and coordinate interviews, including room bookings when needed
    • Coordinate and oversee an assessment centre for our TV apprentices
    • Work closely with the production team to support bookings, rotas & communication with crew
    • Work with the production team and HR to issue contracts
    • Set up new employees or crew with necessary access passes, log ins &/or programs
    • Assisting with travel bookings for talent, crew & editorial teams
    • Assisting with production paperwork such as call sheets, release forms, rotas
    • Supporting production management looking after guests & talent in the building
    • Assisting with admin such as expenses, invoices, payment setups, POs

    Requirements

    What we’re looking for from you:

    • Extremely organised and enjoy administration
    • Proactive and highly inquisitive
    • Resilience working in a changing environment
    • Calm under pressure dealing with a fast paced newsroom
    • Good communication skills specifically working in a team
    • Adaptable attitude to be able to work in a variety of different areas
    • Good use of initiative to ensure you are prioritising tasks as required

    About Us

    TalkTV

    The latest innovation from News UK, TalkTV launched on 25 April 2022 creating a major new channel, available to everyone across the UK and delivering a bold new voice in current affairs, debate and opinion. Piers Morgan, one of the most recognisable broadcasters in the world, is the first signing for TalkTV, delivering Piers Morgan Uncensored, a primetime show which promises to be a fearless forum for lively debate and agenda-setting interviews. Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tom Newton Dunn provides straight and balanced news with The News Desk. And the legendary Sharon Osbourne is just one of the famous faces discussing the day’s issues on The Talk. Drawing together world-class talent across News UK, TalkTV broadcasts from state-of-the-art studios at The News Building in London Bridge and available live or on-demand, on linear and connected TV and on any personal device. TalkTV broadcasts 24/7 on Sky Channel 526, Virgin Media Channel 627, Freeview Channel 237 and Freesat Channel 217, as well as via connected TV services, smart devices, the TalkTV app and at talk.tv.

    We are News UK

    One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

    What We Offer

    Life at News

    We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

    We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

    In addition we also offer:

    • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
    • 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
    • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
    • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

    We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.