Salarioo

Package Description

Job Reference: 19795

Band: B

Contract type: Fixed Term contract / Attachment till 28/02/25

Location: Birmingham - The Mailbox (Hybrid - Home/Office-Tuesday & Wednesday)

Salary: £25,400- £34,400 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 [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

Job Introduction

The TV Social Edit Hub is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Junior Editor to join our team on a short contract till the end of February 2025, to help craft a range of supporting social content for BBC iPlayer programmes.

The Edit Hub creates innovative, reactive content dialled in to young audiences on social platforms – clips, cutdowns and compilations for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for a driven, creative individual who can bring a passion for editing and digital content focused on young audiences.

Based with the Edit Hub at The Mailbox, Birmingham, you’ll use your edit skills to reversion content from BBC Three and iPlayer shows to create impactful video content for social platforms, pointing young audiences to BBC iPlayer. Knowledge of social media trends and audio is definitely a bonus

Working to briefs, with scope to input your own ideas, you’ll be involved in editing clips, and applying appropriate branding and subtitles where needed. The role will also involve reformatting content to ensure it is native and appropriate for the social platforms it will appear on. All content must follow BBC brand and editorial policy guidelines too.

You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute original ideas for digital content and bespoke edits, working in collaboration with the wider TV Social team in Birmingham and London.

You’ll be editing on Adobe Premiere Pro and producing content for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.

Are you the right Candidate?

• Must be confident technically on Adobe Premiere Pro
• Some knowledge of Photoshop / After Effects preferable
• Experience of captioning and subtitling using Premiere, alongside good attention to detail
• Experience of editing for different social platforms and formats – eg TikTok, YouTube, Instagram
• Good communication and organisations skills with ability to juggle multiple tasks
• Experience of working in a fast turnaround environment
• Passion for social and young-skewing content

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. Read about them 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.