Commissioning Executive BBC Children's - Factual Entertainment

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: E

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Children's - Factual Entertainment

LOCATION: Location: Media City, Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working.

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £78,000 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 Content encompasses all of the BBC's network TV and Radio output and brings world-class creativity to our screens through some of the BBC's biggest brands. The division brings together channels and commissioning with TV and Digital production to provide the best television and online content, wherever and whenever audiences want it. Under Charlotte Moore's leadership (as Chief Content Officer) we’re ensuring the widest possible audience can access distinctive, world-beating content across our services.

This is an exciting time to join the Children’s and Education 7 to 12 Commissioning Team to focus on Factual Entertainment. We commission more Children’s content than anyone else in the UK, and have a reputation worldwide for the quality and range of our award-winning unscripted content for kids.

In this role, you will be developing innovative formats and collaborating with established household names and Influencers to find new ways to delight and entertain this elusive audience.

You will be working across the Factual Entertainment slate, which includes recent successes such as Bro’s in Control, Football Academy, Saturday Mash Up and Game on Grandparents, schedule backbone Operation Ouch and exciting new titles like Go Get Arty and Gladiators: Epic Pranks!

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

Led by the Senior Head of Commissioning and Acquisitions, alongside fellow Commissioning Editors and Execs, you will be responsible for supporting both a diverse slate of developments and the delivery of commissions in line with Departmental strategy and the needs of the young audience.

The role will encourage risk-taking and innovation, balancing your editorial nous with ensuring programmes are compliant, delivered on time and on budget and that productions demonstrate value for money, quality and originality.

You will be influential in ensuring that Factual Entertainment content delivers to Departmental diversity commitments both on screen and off screen, and across the UK.

You will be nimble and proactive in keeping up with emerging technology and rapidly changing audience behaviours, as they shift away from linear towards different kinds of content across multiple platforms

You’ll also inspire and engage BBC Studios and independent producers by articulating the 7 to 12 Factual Entertainment editorial priorities, and work with them to create and develop ideas that will entice this young audience to notice, come to and stay with BBC platforms and channels.

You will need to be able to collaborate effectively with the commissioning team and other BBC departments, as well as hold and be able to build strong relationships with external partners and talent.

Your Skills And Experience

The Essential criteria for the role is as follows:

• Experience of seeing a Factual Entertainment production through from start to finish, preferably at Series Producer level.
• Can demonstrate a track record of producing successful content based on a thorough understanding of genre and audience needs.
• Significant experience in edits is essential and a broad-based experience of making popular formats across a range of content forms is desirable.
• A knowledge of the commissioning process throughout development and into production.
• With outstanding editorial judgement and compliance experience, your passion for the genre will be clearly visible along with the ability to enable creativity and innovation with those you work with.
• You’ll be curious and analytical, able to identify key trends but also anticipate challenges and overcome them.
• As a strong communicator you will be able to engage and inspire, particularly when presenting and speaking in public.
• You will have a developing range of talent contacts and relationships in the field of factual entertainment production.
• Proven ability to work with presenters and contributors, both new and established, in a factual entertainment professional environment.
• You will be able to help identify and develop diverse off-screen talent from around the UK – collaborating with fellow commissioners to help build career ladders for key production talent.
• An in-depth knowledge of the children’s content landscape, both linear and digital, including social, gaming and YouTube, and BBC Children’s output. It will be critical for you to have an interest in and instinct for the overall direction of travel for BBC Children’s
• Proven skills to effectively collaborate with both the wider Children’s Commissioning team and other BBC departments.
  
  

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.

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: [email protected]

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.