Job Introduction

The Assistant Producer will originate and produce excellent content. These roles will contribute creative ideas, bringing highest quality content production skills which may involve research, technical operations, audio, online and interactive production activities. May be required to present or report

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

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.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Producer who can compile a running order for Saturday Breakfast or Classical Live, programme 6 hours of recorded international concert material for European broadcasters, or brief a guest ahead of an interview. A part of your role will be to monitor music output to ensure the audio quality is high, including spotting 'glitches' or noticing, for example, if music is not balanced correctly to craft an enjoyable and varied six-hour music sequence.

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.

Are you the right candidate?

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.