Researcher - BBC Bitesize in Salford

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time (01 April 26 - 26 February 27)

DEPARTMENT: Children's & Education, BBC Bitesize

LOCATION: Salford - Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,600 - £31,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

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

As the BBC's formal learning website, Bitesize helps millions of students to progress their education. Researchers are integral to the success of the teams delivering content. You will work closely with Bitesize Producers and Assistant Producers, and with teams across the wider Children's & Education department and Nations, to help deliver online, interactive, multi-media, educational resources for 4-16 year-olds.

Why join the team

BBC Bitesize exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do.

• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through the excellent content available on BBC Bitesize.
• Support and inspire classroom learning with world‐class, curriculum‐linked programming through BBC Bitesize for Teachers.
• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns, such as BBC Super Movers and BBC 500 Words.

You can see the wide range of Bitesize curriculum content here:

Key responsibilities

• Deliver curriculum projects: Primary English
• Support the Producers and Assistant Producers to deliver commissioned suites of digital learning content that include audio, podcasts, video, text, infographics, games and interactive activities.
• Conduct research into curriculum learning outcomes.
• Review and edit text, manipulate imagery and build webpages using a CMS.
• Create content that inspires and supports young learners in their formal education.
• Work positively with others to deliver excellent work.

Your skills and experience

Essential criteria:

• Digital content making skills: Practical experience of creating high‐quality, digital content, including previous use of CMS's (e.g. iSite), video upload software (e.g iBroadcast), and image editing/creation software (e.g. PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc.).
• Editorial skills: Able to conduct efficient research and distil findings into reports or recommendations. Confident use of written English and able to write and edit large volumes of text to a high standard. Able to apply editorial guidelines. Have practical editorial experience in making curriculum or learning content for children and applying appropriate editorial judgement.
• Project management: Able to work within defined project‐management workflows to deliver their elements of complex digital projects effectively.
• Working with suppliers: Experience of commissioning infographics, and written content from specialist writers. Experience of engaging subject specialists as editorial consultants.
• Audience focus: Understanding of the 5-16 audience, their diversity and their media habits. Able to initiate, set‐up and run user‐testing and/or audience insight sessions.

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.

This role requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment. 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.

Benefits

• 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.

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