JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, 28 hours per week
DEPARTMENT: Archives and Library Services – News
LOCATION: Southampton, 2/3 days per week on site required (every working day on site for 1 month training)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £33,000 pro‑rata 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.
BBC EXTEND
This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long‑term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non‑apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact extend@bbc.co.uk.
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage. (EXTEND code: EX2324).
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Archives Technology & Services (ATS) is a team of about 200 colleagues, based across the whole of the UK. We are responsible for the collection, storage and delivery of the BBC’s content. This involves providing digital media storage and media movement technology, file delivery tools and digital archive systems across the BBC. From archive research, music library services, corporate records management and an extensive written archive service, as well as heritage artefacts. It also includes the news and sport libraries.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is a great opportunity for someone that is passionate about archiving, enjoys working in a fast paced and sometimes demanding environment, providing archive information for breaking news stories as they arise. It’s an exciting role that offers exposure to a wealth of historic information.
Digital Archivists support the charter requirements to maintain an archive for the BBC. Digital Archivists work across the BBC’s archive and library collections ensuring content is available for re‑use and exploitation. Digital archivists apply specialist knowledge of the collections for selection, research, cataloguing and compliance of content.
Digital Archivists provide high quality services to our users that present and showcase Archive content increasingly via digital delivery.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
* Cataloguing content to support re‑use, search and accessibility of the archive and library collections.
* Managing enquiries from users of the BBC’s archive and library collections, supporting them to navigate and search and providing a mediated access and delivery service of content.
* Using search skills and emerging analytic tools to enable the curation of digital assets across multiple platforms.
* Working with digital and physical collections, delivering specialist services.
* Working as part of a team, as well as independently, Archivists interact with a range of customers and user communities, both BBC and externally.
* Exercising attention to detail at all times, and often working to very tight deadlines.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria:
* A higher education qualification in archives, records or information management; or equivalent experience of working in broadcast and media content management.
* Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of current BBC News and Current Affairs output and awareness of how these will develop in the future.
* Demonstrable knowledge of news archiving systems and their application in managing news content.
* Understanding of archive selection, metadata enhancement and awareness of rights issues.
* Examples of excellent attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Desired but not required:
* Knowledge of broadcasting technology practices, relevant regulations.
* Interest in National and Regional news output.
* A good appreciation or knowledge of databases and computer software packages (in particular, Microsoft Excel) and their application to information services.
* Experience of working as part of a customer‑focused team.
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.
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.
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
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
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.
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.
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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