Production Coordinator, BBC Audio

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract, Full-time / Attachment, Full-time until September 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC Audio Wales & West
LOCATION:   Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol 
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £29,000 - £35,000 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. 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

Are you an organised and proactive individual with a passion for audio production? Production coordinators are the glue that holds programme making together, and their work and influence touches every aspect of the lifecycle of a programme. They’re the team responsible for all the resources a programme needs – does it have the right budget, is money being spent in the most effective way, does it have the right team in the right place at the right time with the right paperwork (especially for complex location recordings), are we working in the most environmentally sustainable way possible,  are copyright items cleared to be published on all our platforms and do programmes have all the metadata required attached to them to enable both audience and archive searchability?

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC Audio’s creative teams produce 20,500 shows and make an extraordinary range of content. We're made up of 500+ colleagues who produce over 90 hours of content every single day. We supply programmes, podcasts and music for almost all of the BBC's radio networks and BBC Sounds.

Radio 1's Breakfast Show with Greg James to Radio 4 favourites such as Woman’s Hour, You & Yours and The Archers are made by our teams.
In Speech production, we create content across a wide range of specialist subjects. In Bristol, our output ranges from arts programmes such as Radio 4’s Soul Music to factual and topical output such as Farming Today and Any Questions? 

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Resource Management: Ensure all necessary resources (IT, production staff, freelancers) are available and all content attracting copyright is clearable.


• Staffing & Cost Coordination: Assist in scheduling staff to programmes and help to manage the staffing and programme budgets, ensuring productions remain within budget and deliver value for money. Support Production Manager in liaising with external providers and manage cost decisions within budgetary remit.


• Compliance: Ensure compliance with policies, guidelines, and legislative requirements to minimise risk.


• Influencing team-members within BBC Audio and the wider BBC: Influence and motivate key contacts and colleagues to achieve desired outcomes.


• Project Planning: Demonstrate strong organisational and planning skills to manage projects effectively.


• Value for Money: Ensure production/content delivers demonstrable value for money through effective coordination of people and resources.


• Budget Management: Prepare, manage, set, and monitor production budgets, including forecasting and reporting. Assess financial viability of content ideas.


• Metadata Management: Adhere to processes for capturing and managing metadata in line with BBC guidelines, ensuring Archives have necessary information.

Note: This role may require early morning and weekend working. It is based in Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Bristol but travel and location work may be necessary, including during evenings and weekends. Production Coordinators, as members of BBC Audio Wales & West can be expected to be scheduled on programmes across the department according to business need.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven track record of playing a co-ordinating role within a production team


• Experience of delivering a range of/parts of productions on time and on budget and coordinating deliverables for productions


• Good working knowledge of end-to-end multi-platform production with a level of technical awareness


• Excellent organisational and planning skills; able to schedule and prioritise people and activities to meet operational deadlines


• Business and finance skills; able to prepare, manage and/or monitor specific production resource plans and budgets

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.