Senior Content Producer - Children\'s

Fixed Term - Full Time

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

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

Job Introduction: Want to work with some of the most well-loved brands on UK children's TV at a senior level, in a digital space? The Digital Media Platforms and Planning team are looking for an experienced Senior Content Producer to run the BBC Children's website platforms. We are looking for someone truly passionate about curating and creating exciting digital content online for kids aged 2-12. Someone who understands what kids are talking about, what they love and what will engage them. Someone editorially experienced in running digital platforms, data driven, well-organised and highly motivated.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leadership of the team, motivating and supporting them in delivering maximum impact and value to our audience via the Children's website platform.
• Ensuring that the editorial vision is communicated and understood and that all content, and promotional activity is working towards our strategy and achieving our targets.
• Being data driven, using analytical reports, SEO and audience insights to inform editorial decisions.
• Working closely with Product colleagues to achieve our shared objectives.
• Establish and maintain successful processes and workflows.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams across Digital, Commissioning, Product and external partners, ensuring excellent communication and collaboration.
• Management of audience engagement via the website including comments, user-generated content, and running competitions via our BBC Children's compliance processes and guidelines.
• Accountability for the editorial compliance of content and copyright reporting and to ensure BBC standards and guidelines are met.
• Keeping across the latest Kids trends, insights and industry developments in digital games, websites and platforms that kids are using.

Are you the right candidate? We are looking for a Senior Content Producer to manage the running of the Children's Websites. You will inspire staff to create, curate and promote content in ways that deliver maximum value to our audience and maximum impact to the platform. We want someone who is passionate about digital content, platforms and understands digital trends amongst younger audiences. You will be full of creative ideas and hungry to make a difference.

You will have strong editorial and strategic skills experienced in managing digital content/platforms for younger audiences. You'll know what will appeal to kids and how we can use the platform to maximum benefit. You'll have proven experience of using online analytics and real time data tools to inform effective decision making and to drive results. You'll also have excellent planning and organisational skills, an eye for detail and high-quality content and copyrighting standards. You'll be committed to creating a fun and professional environment, ideal for staff to work at their best, and to develop and thrive at work. You will feel comfortable conveying your ideas to a wide range of people across different levels across the business. You'll be able to build productive relationships and communicate successfully with digital teams, stakeholders, departments across the BBC and external partners. You will be able to work effectively with editorial and digital Product teams to achieve our shared objectives. It's important that you are passionate about delighting our target audience. If this sounds like you, we'd love to receive an application from you!

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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; a DBS check and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.