Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH
| Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time / Attachment, Full-time until 26th of February 2027
DEPARTMENT: BBC Children’s & Education
LOCATION: Salford
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,600 - £31,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Education exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC. Part of BBC Bitesize, Bitesize Careers is our digital platform which helps young people navigate the world of work with advice from experts and young people who have found a path which suits them.
In Autumn we are launching a Careers campaign, in partnership with the Open University, aimed at 14–19-year-olds which will inspire young people to discover jobs and careers they will enjoy through focusing on their interests and passions, starting with football.
Bitesize Careers is looking for an experienced researcher to work closely with the producer and assistant producer to deliver a high-quality digital campaign, ensuring it resonates with the target audience and has real impact.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will gain a thorough understanding of how a BBC Bitesize campaign is run by supporting the producer and assistant producer in the set up and delivery of the campaign, including the launch event, films, podcast series and quizzes to help young people navigate the world of work.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
* Utilising your digital skills to create content for the campaign which will sit on the Careers website. This might include uploading videos, writing articles, adding promos / links from the campaign pages to relevant contact across the BBC or our partners’ sites.
* Supporting the set-up and delivery of the campaign launch, helping to identify contributors and ambassadors to feature in films, events, podcast series or promotional content. Researching, sourcing and pre-interviewing potential contributors, ambassadors and industry experts, ensuring diversity of backgrounds and career pathways.
* Once the campaign is up and running evaluate content performance to help inform future content/curation of collection pages, ensuring they are easy to navigate
* Supporting the assistant producer in creating promotional content aimed at schools
* Undertaking audience research to ensure content reflects the needs, motivations and barriers faced by 14–19-year-olds when exploring careers. Translating complex career pathways and industry information into clear, accessible language for a youth audience.
* Identify emerging trends across youth, sport and careers content to shape campaign storytelling and tone; fact‑check all material to ensure accuracy, alignment with BBC editorial guidelines, and effective cross‑promotion between Bitesize Careers and partner platforms, including researching new football and careers sector partners to support amplification opportunities.
* Monitor analytics to track user behaviour, engagement and traffic sources, producing short insight summaries to inform editorial decisions and improve user journeys; review feedback to refine content collections and enhance navigation across campaign pages.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
* You’ll have a strong digital skillset, with experience in creating and working with digital content assets across platforms including social.
* You will also have experience in using digital content management systems
* You will have sound editorial judgement and a demonstrable passion for creating engaging educational content for young people
* You’ll have an interest in working with statistics and audience data, using it to inform decisions around content
* You’ll be a creative and driven self-starter, able to manage your time effectively and work both independently and as part of a small team
DESIRABLE
* Interest in Football would be an advantage
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
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Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:
• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
Candidate pack
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
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