Assistant Producer, Panorama

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Sector: Media and Publishing
Role: Assistant
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Package Information
Job Reference: 21464
Band: C
Salary: Up to £40,000 + London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract Type: Continuing
Location: London Broadcasting House, W1A

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• 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, gym and much more.

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Job Introduction
Panorama is the BBC’s multi-award-winning flagship current affairs series, making films for BBC One and iPlayer, with value for all news impact across multiple platforms and outlets, including socials. Panorama produces a broad portfolio of films including undercover investigations, social affairs, international affairs news reactive fast turnarounds, access documentaries, and presenter-led films.

Main Responsibilities

• Initiating ideas for films and developing creative treatments across a wide range of subjects both domestic and international.
• Setting up shoots and dealing with logistics / schedules.
• Finding contributors and forging working relationships with them before, during and after broadcast.
• Supporting a producer/director and reporter in shaping the editorial direction of a film.
• Taking responsibility for fact-checking and accuracy.
• Generating ideas and material for a range of digital outlets, including filming and editing material where required.
• Having or developing strong relationships within the BBC as well as the independent sector.

Are You the Right Candidate?

• Proven track record in major journalistic techniques, for example, FOIs, open source, data etc.
• Demonstrable self-shooting and lighting skills – sequences and interviews.
• The ability to communicate clearly and produce effective briefs for filming assignments.
• Substantial knowledge of audiences both digital and terrestrial.
• Good technical understanding of broadcast cameras and production workflows, an interest in and an ability to adapt to the latest technologies.
• Clear knowledge and understanding of the BBC’s compliance framework including the editorial guidelines, legal and high-risk compliance.
• An understanding of the importance of health & safety, especially on location.
• Understanding of data protection issues and secure storage of material.

About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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

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