Job Introduction

The BBC is the leading Children's broadcaster in the UK. We are proud of the award-winning content we make across all platforms - television, online, radio, apps, YouTube, social media and more. BBC Children's is committed to offering the best cross-platform and on-demand service for all UK children, providing a trusted environment which is enriching, enabling and relevant to the under 16's. Our content seeks to entertain, inform and empower children, adding real value to their lives.

The Discovery team own BBC Children's relationship with the audience. We cover everything from Presentation to publishing on our TV Channels, CBeebies and CBBC, as well as iPlayer. We oversee Children's digital platforms for 0-16s, including Newsround and our suite of CBeebies apps for our youngest audience, as well as our growing YouTube portfolio and social media channels. We're responsible for working closely with programme-makers, Design & Engineering and the wider BBC to ensure our brilliant content and products reach as big an audience as possible.

Stepping Out is the audience connection scheme for BBC Children's. It has three main objectives; bringing staff face to face with their audience, gaining direct feedback from children and young people, and giving something back to our audience by building relationships within our communities.

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.


Role Responsibility
To plan, coordinate and manage the delivery of 1-2research sessions each week during term time, as well as sessions with extra-curricular or community groups during school holiday periods, managing groups of 30 children and BBC staff attending sessions.
To design bespoke interactive website and app sessions to meet specific briefs from commissioning, development, production and digital teams within BBC Children's.
To work with Stepping Out Manager and Production teams to determine areas of focus for research with 2-16-year-olds across the academic year
To evaluate, collate and interpret insights from sessions, delivering specific feedback in report form, as well as keeping the department updated on general trends and findings through the department intranet site, noticeboards and in presentations in meetings where appropriate.
To proactively provide insight on current trends and advice on the target age groups to help shape ideas for further development.
To provide administrative support for the Stepping Out Manager and Co-ordinator in delivering sessions for 2-12-year-olds where necessary.
To build and maintain relationships within Children's and other BBC North/wider BBC departments regarding Stepping Out sessions.
To build and maintain relationships with new and existing external organisations (such as schools, extra-curricular and community groups), ensuring these reflect the diversity of BBC Children's target audiences.
To provide additional support for outreach and partnership events for Children's as and when required


Are you the right candidate?

As our ideal candidate, you will have a background in teaching/facilitation and/or experience of working with children and young people on a regular basis.

You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to establish rapport very quickly and effectively with adults, children and young people.

You will ideally be familiar with research techniques and have the ability to sift through information and select what is significant.

Good planning and organisational skills are essential.

It would also be highly beneficial if you bring a working knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding.


Package Description

Band:C
Contract type: 12 Month FTC/Attachment (Maternity Cover)
Location: MediaCityUK, Salford

Interviews for this role will be held on Thursday 16th May.

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 the 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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.


About the BBC

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

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, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.