Description
BBC Studios Kids & Family are looking for a Production Coordinator for their Animation Unit to join the team to work across the portfolio, supporting a range of productions including those moving from our development team into production.
The Animation Unit is the team that brings you award winning titles such as JoJo & Gran Gran, Supertato, Love Monster and Danger Mouse. We work closely with our colleagues on teams such as Blue Peter, Something Special and Saturday Mash Up.
Dates: Asap until 27th March 2026
Location: Salford
Key Responsibilities:
•Contributes to the scheduling and budgeting of the production/content in line with divisional requirements and relevant BBC frameworks, guidelines and policies.
•Responsible for supporting the Line Producers (or equivalent) in identifying and sourcing appropriate resource and location requirements for the production at the earliest possible stage.
•Ensures compliance with BBC policies, guidelines, legislative and regulatory requirements, in order to minimise the BBC’s exposure to risk.
•Responsible for ensuring all necessary rights are acquired and recorded for the complete delivery of the production/content, escalating any issues at the earliest stage.
•Accountable for resolving any operational and financial issues commensurate with the role.
•Ensures the production/content delivers demonstrable value for money through effective and efficient management of people and resources.
•Applies specialist skills to productions (eg animation knowledge) where appropriate.
•Responsible for the monitoring of production budgets, and for forecasting and reporting, where required. May also assess the financial viability of content ideas that may arise during productions.
•Adhere to the processes for fully and accurately capturing and managing metadata in line with BBC guidelines and policies, and ensuring Archives have the necessary information to manage media assets.
•Identifies training needs of less experienced colleagues, ensuring performance management arrangements are in place, where necessary.
•Maintains a safe and healthy working environment at all times, escalating any issues or areas of concern.
•Proactively looks for ways of improving efficiencies within a production environment, promotes diversity and champions the rationale for new ways of working and/or for adopting new production related technologies.
•Supports other internal departments with the implementation of their strategies (e.g. HR, Workplace, Procurement, Finance, etc)
•Responsible for liaising and supporting the Line Producers and Asset Management teams about asset requirements and joiner, mover and leaver activities both in the office and on location.
•Providing administrative support to the production teams, as and when required, depending on team structures.
•Contributing to, and helping to implement, practical actions to reduce environmental impact throughout production.
Knowledge, skills, training and experience:
•Demonstrates interest in BBC Studios and the wider industry.
•Demonstrable experience of carrying out a coordinating role within a production team.
•Knowledge of animation production pipelines strongly preferable.
•Experience of licensing children, with a high level of confidence in all matters to do with safeguarding.
•Knowledge of delivering a range of/elements of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions, where necessary having worked on location, with crews and production teams with a strong knowledge of how productions are managed.
•Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with an understanding of the technology used on productions.
•Able to use and advise on production systems and can adopt new technologies.
•High level of confidence with post production paperwork and series delivery to broadcasters.
•Interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to establish and maintain effective relations with a wide range of contacts.
•Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
•Ability to use own initiative with confidence, using judgment to escalate where necessary.
•Able to consider and propose new ways of working to improve existing processes
•Experience of influencing and motivating others to achieve results.
•Essential business and finance skills - able to prepare, manage, set and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets and buying/booking resources.
Company Name
Location
Salford
Posted on
29th Aug 2025
Apply by
5th Sep 2025