Junior Executive Producer, Specialist Factual Productions - EXTEND Junior Executive Producer, Specialist Factual Productions - EXTEND

BBC Studios Distribution Limited, Cessnock, Glasgow City

Junior Executive Producer, Specialist Factual Productions - EXTEND Junior Executive Producer, Specialist Factual Productions - EXTEND

£90900

BBC Studios Distribution Limited, Cessnock, Glasgow City

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 2 Nov | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 45a687bc42eb41798eb0dd1c94700876

Full Job Description

  • The prime responsibility of the role will be to manage the successful output and delivery of the department's commissioned portfolio.
  • Generating award-winning, popular and channel-defining output.
  • Bringing projects in compliant, on schedule and on budget.
  • The role will call for exceptional management of a diverse team of people, encouraging the flow of ideas and an open culture where teams can do their best work. You will be responsible for increasing inclusion on- and off-screen.

    We are looking especially for experience and understanding of Specialist Factual film-making, development experience and production. We want to build on our heritage and continue to create bold, ambitious and ground-breaking content across a variety of platforms.
  • We currently operate on a hybrid working business, with 3 days per week in the office on a full time basis. Please only apply if you live in Scotland and can work in Glasgow. We will only consider candidates with previous experience at a senior level in the prime time specialist factual sphere, so please do not apply if you do not have this experience.,
  • Extensive recent experience of leading and inspiring production teams in a multi-platform environment and an ability to demonstrate strong managerial skills and positive behaviours.
  • Effective planning and organising skills with the ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
  • Proven senior-level experience in financial and budget planning/responsibility, working closely with production management teams to keep multiple and complex shows within budget, along with a demonstrable ability to provide strong editorial judgement in a fast-moving environment.
  • Current experience of managing on-screen talent.
  • Ability to shape archive led retrospective stories as well as constructed format series.

    BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
  • We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content., Specialist Factual Productions is the home of high quality, thought-provoking and award-winning factual television. It's an exciting time to join BBC Studios Productions - we are currently in production with Sky; the BBC, PBS, Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic, Netflix, Apple TV and Migu. We are launching an initiative to give experienced Series Producers, based in Glasgow, an opportunity to step-up to an Executive Producer level in Specialist Factual Productions. They will be supported by a team of established Executive Producers and receive extensive on the job training. They will be working to the Creative Director and Genre Head., The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here. BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

  • We offer a competitive salary package
  • Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
  • Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
  • 26 days holiday (plus an additional day 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
  • A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation