Researcher, This Farming Life Researcher, This Farming Life

It's an excellent opportunity for aspiring Shooting AP/ DV Directors. You will work with an experienced Shooting PD, learning directly from them. You will gain plenty of location experience, be fully engaged with contributors, always thinking about story and enhancing your technical skills.,

• To maintain consistent and professional communication with contributors
• To work closely with the Producer/Director on location to ensure the success of the shoot both editorially and technically
• To help the PD identify and keep track of potential stories
• To support the Producer/Director and Production Management team in the planning of shoots and staying across any last minute changes.
• To help organise and set up filming at various ad hoc locations, such as livestock marts
• Helping with location sound, setting up and managing Go Pros and occasional self-shooting to 2nd camera level
• Location data wrangling, and ensuring all material filmed or recorded on the shoot is safely backed up, documented and transported back to the main production office.
  
  Competent technical skills, including experience of location sound, self-shooting and Data wrangling.
• Able to stay on location for 2 to 4 days per week. This can sometimes be for longer, and can include some weekend work for which you'll be given days off in lieu.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Comfortable working in close proximity to farm animals and in a farming/outdoor environment in often inclement weather.
• Excellent people skills and the ability to maintain a creative, problem-solving approach in fast-changing and challenging situations.
• Researcher TV broadcast credits on observational documentary programmes.
• Full UK driving licence
  
  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., BBC Studios' BAFTA award winning series "This Farming Life" has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Researcher to join the production team for its 8th series. This returning observational documentary series follows the struggles and triumphs of farming families over 9 months, showing farming life as it really is in some of Scotland's most stunning and remote landscapes., 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