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Package Description
Job Reference: 23077
Band: D
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment - 01/07/25 till 27/02/26
Location: Salford (Home/Office - Hybrid)
Salary: £40,000- £50,000 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. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Benefits
* Excellent career progression– the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
* Unrivalled training and development opportunities– our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
* Benefits - we offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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Job Introduction
BBC Education exists to transform lives through learning and education. That clear vision drives everything we do as we lead the overall education strategy for the BBC.
Our aims are:
* Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through BBC Bitesize
* Support and Inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum linked programming
* Help ensure children and young people have resources and opportunities they need to thrive through campaigns such as BBC Microbit and 500 Words
BBC Education is recruiting a Producer to deliver BBC 500 Words 2025-26, the UK’s most successful children’s story writing competition, which celebrates creativity and imagination rather than spelling, punctuation or grammar. Since it was first launched by the Radio 2 Breakfast Show in 2011, the competition has received over a million stories.
500 Words is now a pan BBC initiative run by Bitesize for Teachers, hosted by The One Show and supported by other programmes across the BBC. The competition is made in collaboration with a wide variety of external partners who help not only deliver the prizes but help increase the reach and impact of the competition.
Main Responsibilities
* You will be responsible for delivering the competition, ensuring it runs smoothly, is fully compliant and within BBC editorial and legal guidelines.
* You will be responsible for ensuring the competition website has all the relevant competition information, inspires children of all abilities to enter, reflects our diverse audience and supports teachers in the classroom.
* You will be responsible for working closely with a wide variety of partners (internal and external) to ensure the competition is not only successful but reaches children of all abilities and backgrounds.
* You'll lead, motivate, and support a small team, ensuring that the editorial vision is communicated and understood.
* You'll be responsible for project management and timeline of the competition, working closely with the Production Management to ensure it is delivered within budget.
Are you the right candidate?
* Experience of developing or delivering educational campaigns for young audiences
* Track record of producing, commissioning and complying content for a school aged audience – e.g., films and articles
* Demonstrable experience of managing and curating digital content for a website with strong editorial judgement and excellent attention to detail
* You’ll be extremely collaborative, possess strong negotiating and influencing skills and have extensive experience in working with high profile partners both internal and external to ensure projects are impactful and have a wide reach
* You'll have the ability to lead and motivate teams to develop creative content which is inclusive and engages diverse audiences as well as actively managing team performance
* Extensive project management skills with the ability to manage several areas of work simultaneously, prioritise, deliver on deadlines, and react positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.
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, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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