Business Coordinator

at  BBC

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job ID: 20940
Band: C
Location: Belfast – Broadcasting House - This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
Role Type: Continuing Role
Salary: £28,500 - £33,333 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@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

JOB INTRODUCTION

BBC News Northern Ireland provides breaking news, analysis, features and debate plus coverage on topical issues across all platforms for local audiences and beyond. The Belfast and Foyle newsrooms are supported by a team who are responsible for staff rotas, leave management and the payment of contributors. This team is crucial for the smooth operation of the department, on a daily and longer term basis.
We’re looking for people who are passionate about working with others and who love being organised, and keeping on top of your workload.
Working in the News and Current Affairs Team, the primary objective of the Business Coordinator role is to provide comprehensive business support to managers and team leaders. The role will be responsible for a broad range of administrative tasks, including diary management, payment processing, co-ordinating training initiatives, and driving the optimisation of cross-team operational systems.

ABOUT THE BBC

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.
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 here.
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, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

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

• Assist projects/working groups by providing general administration services, analytics reports and tracking outputs.
• Help cascade information across the business to ensure effective communication flow.
• Monitor and report on mandatory training.
• Collaborate with divisional specialists to provide general policy guidance and advice.
• Provide business support service including diary assistance, travel logistics, co-ordination of meetings.
• Carry out delegated business administrative tasks including managing onboarding and offboarding of our staff and freelancers, raising IT support requests, and other tasks as required.
• Support risk management and data protection processes.
• Support the monitoring of finance performance against budget, working closely with specialists to produce relevant Management Information.
• Support the Planning and Scheduling team with raising purchase orders, processing contributor payments and freelancer bookings.