Assistant Commissioner, Animation, 0-12 - BBC Children's & Education (Belfa

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 18357
Band: D
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Belfast. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office/location home working.
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 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. 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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the Reasonable Adjustments team. For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

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DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Assistant Commissioner will ensure that they are immersed both in BBC Children’s content, but also actively research new innovations with competitor brands/talent, in order to help focus development priorities.
• The Assistant Commissioner will assist in the preparation of detailed performance reviews of each Indie title by liaising with Audiences, Scheduling and Marketing.
• They will help to manage Indie Routines, Briefings and external Pitching sessions, collating the Pitches for the new Commissioning rounds and arranging Webinars as necessary
• They will work closely with the Commissioning Editors to ensure there is a strong development pipeline for our audience, assess all new proposals with confident editorial judgement, pro-actively spot development opportunities and help to co-ordinate development effort.
• They will be an effective and responsive first point of contact for new suppliers, independently handling initial rejections with tact and sensitivity, responding to individual queries, progressing and allocating ideas as appropriate, providing feedback and guidance in a timely manner.
• They will help manage the submissions of all new proposals and ensure that they are all submitted, and to monitor the teams’ relationship with suppliers and performance
• They will build and manage relationships with new or emerging suppliers as appropriate.
• They will have a keen understanding of Children’s editorial strategy and to advise suppliers accordingly; to make decisions to ensure this strategy is delivered with each commission, including ensuring diversity, quotas and objectives are in line with strategy for the Genre.
• They will spot key trends in the genre (including programmes), including new subject territories for contemporary programmes
• They will ensure commissions are based on a sound understanding of cost, quality, delivery date, rights exploitation and funding needs.
• They will be responsible for delivering low risk programming including compliance, and complying publicity photos and online content.
• They will review content to ensure it is editorially compliant and in line with BBC editorial standards