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Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to provide Personal Assistant support to at least two Senior Leaders within the BBC’s Product Group.

Product Group

Product Group is a dynamic and fast-paced team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC’s diverse and unparalleled portfolio of digital products – including iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website. Product Group is an agile organisation, where individuals from different disciplines work together in multifunctional teams to build the products and the capabilities which support them. It comprises more than 1,000 people, located across the UK.

Business Management and Administration

The Business Management and Administration team works in partnership with all professional services and corporate functions accountable to the BBC Chief Operating Officer (including Product, Technology, HR, Finance, Legal, and Commercial). This PA role will be embedded within Product Group, working to the BMA Business Partner for Product Group.

Main Responsibilities

As a Personal Assistant you will

• Support Senior Leaders with day-to-day diary management, forward scheduling and specific event planning including Board-level meetings
• Co-ordinate and book ad-hoc complex travel arrangements
• Cultivate good working relationships with the Product leadership team, the COO Group leadership team and other senior leaders, to provide clear and consistent business support.
• Work independently and as part of a wider Business Management and Administration team.

Are you the right candidate?

To be successful in this role the following are Essential:

• A proven track record of working successfully as a PA to a senior leader in a complex organisation
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and juggle multiple tasks concurrently, often under pressure.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with Senior Leaders and the Business Management & Administration Team
• Experience of managing complex diaries, and to be proactive in planning and mitigating conflicting meetings and events
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Computer literate with strong organisational skills, exemplary PowerPoint skills and able to learn new IT skills quickly in order to adapt to different systems.
• Strong attention to detail

Desirable

• Experience of working in the Digital or Broadcast Technology sector and/or within a Professional Services setting.
• Knowledge of BBC Products

Package Description

Band:               B

Contract type:  Permanent

Location:         Office base can be any of the main hubs - London, Salford, Cardiff or Glasgow.  This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

Salary:             £25,000 to £35,000pa (plus London Weighting (£5,319pa) if London based), 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.

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.

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