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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Working in the Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to enable the delivery of world-beating journalism 24/7/365. Business Co-ordinators partner with editorial teams based across the UK to deliver against strategic divisional objectives and Value for All whilst maintaining the day-to-day operation.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is an opportunity to join a team focused on delivering against challenging targets and operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment. No two days will be the same and monthly routine activity including analysis, reporting and governance duties will be interspersed with handling immediate operational priorities and resolving issues. The successful candidate will join a warm, open, curious and collaborative team, where there is opportunity to grow and develop new skills and experiences whilst also working independently and taking the lead on improving processes and delivering impactful improvements.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

The Business Co-ordinators will partner closely with a range of News Content and Live & Daily teams to support key business management activities including:

• Business Planning: supporting the production of forecasts, budgets and options for the management of risk and opportunity.
• Business Performance Management: collating and analysing data, investigating variances to budget and producing routine monthly and quarterly reports on key management information, e.g. headcount.
• Administrative Management: including joiner, mover & leaver activity management, making bookings and raising purchase orders and IT requests.
• Projects & Change: working with the Business Partner and Business Advisor to ensure that the business management services remain fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving customer and business needs. Or working with Editorial areas on changes ranging from ways of working to changes to tools and systems.
• Specialist Management Support: working with senior leaders across News to ensure the efficient and effective operation of decision-making and oversight groups across News, organising meetings, co-ordinating papers, taking minutes and recording decisions.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Demonstrable experience of providing administrative support in a business unit of similar complexity across a range of teams.
• Highly organised with a flexible and proactive approach and an ability to work with limited supervision and to co-ordinate a busy workload with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines.
• High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing and collating complex and confidential information; and the ability to produce MI data reports in a range of formats, ensuring deadlines are met and information provided is complete, accurate and timely.
• Strong IT skills with solid experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preferably of other specialist reporting and business management tools.
• Knowledge and experience of corporate governance and the administration of decision-making and oversight groups, including producing timely, accurate, high-quality minutes and actions.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Experience in building and maintaining constructive working relationships with individuals across a range of teams and professional support functions.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and to target the content to the audience.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 1 x Continuing (Perm) role & 1 x FTC/Attachment role until 30th April 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC News – Production and Business Management Team
LOCATION: Media City, Salford (Hybrid role with an expectation that you will work a minimum of 2-3 days a week in the office).

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £30,000 - £35,000 p.a. 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.

Interviews are expected to take place during the week of 8th September 2025.

Ideally we would like the successful candidates to start as soon as possible in Early October 2025.

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.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

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.

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.

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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