Resource Co-Ordinator

Job Ref: 29861

Job Band: C

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: BBC Media Operations / Planning and Delivery

Location: London New Broadcasting House – Hybrid

Proposed Salary Range: £29,000 - £38,067 + London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Closing Date: 23:59pm on 8th of December 2025

Interviews scheduled to commence: 15th December 2025 (subject to change)

Purpose of the role

To effectively contract and schedule resources including staff, facilities and equipment in accordance with production and transmission requirements, conditions of service and objectives of the operational areas. Working closely with the News Content editors and planners in providing the efficient and effective management and control of all craft operations involved in the delivery of BBC content for Radio, TV and Digital. To support and coordinate the workload of Resource Schedulers to deliver standardised procedures and ways of working consistent across outputs, where required.

Your key responsibilities and impact

• Work closely with News Content Production team, Editors and Planners teams to help provide crewing and editing solutions when conflicts occur, ensure appropriate teams are always booked and accommodate customer driven name requests if appropriate.
• Monitor requirements in order to identify schedule changes or addition requirements and assess any continuity issues. Communicate plans & revisions regularly to all stakeholders.
• Provide the main point of contact to key members of the production team; including craft staff team and freelance technical crew. Build up and maintain good relationships with all contacts through facilitating regular dialogue, discussion and sharing of ideas.
• Managing contracting of casual and freelance staff and ensuring that casual and freelance staff are dealt with in a professional manner.
• Design and improve scheduling and reporting procedures that increase efficiency or service levels.

Your skills and experience

Essential criteria

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts.
• Excellent knowledge of, or ability to learn about, the BBC terms and conditions, policies and Working Time Directive to enable effective resource scheduling and deployments.
• Sound knowledge and experience of a scheduling system, together with well‑developed IT skills.
• Experience working in a News environment, good general knowledge of programme‑making techniques and detailed knowledge of techniques related to own area of responsibility.
• Ability to effectively balance conflicting priorities whilst under pressure and to work on site as required.

Desired but not required:

• Demonstrate leadership potential including the ability to be assertive and handle conflict effectively.
• Ability to manage in a changing environment and help lead others through the change process.
• Highly customer focused with strong negotiation skills.
• Self‑assured with the confidence to make unpopular decisions.
• Demonstrates excellent planning and organisational skills.

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 pension scheme 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.

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