Assistant Producer, BBC Audio North (Classical Music) (8500)

Job Reference:  8500

Band: C
Contract type: 1 x Continuing 
Location: MediaCityUK, Salford 
Salary: £27,500 - £37,500 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. 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 . 

BBC Audio North is the single biggest supplier of BBC radio programmes and podcasts made outside of London. We love audio and make lots of it – a rich mix of content spanning multiple genres including consumer, investigations, documentaries, religion and arts for national BBC Radio, the World Service and Sounds. 

The Radio 3 Production team in Salford is a group of people passionate about classical music. This job is all about our dedication to excellence in music production, specifically classical in its broadest sense, including new music, jazz, world, folk, film and early music. We aim to bring our enthusiasm for this music to our audiences via content on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, live or pre-recorded, either in the studio or in the concert hall.

The Radio 3 programmes we produce here are wide-ranging. They include Weekend Breakfast, Classical Live, Sound of Cinema, Sound of Gaming, a whole range of live and pre-recorded broadcast concerts, the Early Music Show, Choral Evensong and mixes for BBC Sounds.

We are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Producer who can compile a running order for Saturday Breakfast or Classical Live, or brief a guest ahead of an interview. If you can reassure presenters with clear, reliably sourced notes, support a producer stressed by deadlines or encourage a less experienced colleague, you could be our next team member. You should have editing skills and be able to cut down an interview at short notice, have attention to detail to provide accurate metadata and have experience of publishing podcasts.

The Ideal candidate to be an Assistant Producer:

• Will be passionate about the music and programmes of Radio 3 (including the ones listed above) 
• Will have a love of classical music.
• You will have demonstrable research techniques and skills appropriate to briefing presenters or writing scripts.
• Will have the ability to manage events or projects or programme strands.
• Will have good interpersonal skills and understand how you contribute to a successful team.
• Will have good talent management skills.
• Will have excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Will be excellent at multi-tasking.
• Will be able to learn new audio editing and IT systems and be competent in their use.
• Experience of radio production is preferred but not essential.  

To find out more, please contact Lizzie Hoskin  (Content Editor, Radio 3 Salford).

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