Assistant Producer, BBC Asian Network

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, gym and much more. 

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.

Job Introduction:

BBC Asian Network is the UK’s biggest Asian multi-platform radio station. It’s also recognised as the best Radio Station in the UK, with an ARIA award in 2024. We champion and celebrate young British Asians with a distinctive mix of music and speech, offering the best in new music, events, news, current affairs and everything that matters to our audience. With over a million followers across our social platforms, we are the leading voice in British-Asian culture.

Our teams reflect the lives and interests of British-Asians and we play the best in music from Bollywood to RnB, UK Asian Rap to Old Skool Bhangra, to name just a few. We provide support for British Asian and international artists via our extensive multi-platform approach.

The Assistant Producer position is a multi-skilled role and manages the playlisting and curation for a number of Asian Network shows, as well as wider playlist and music team duties.  The successful applicant will be expected to contribute creative ideas and bring high quality content production skills involving research,  technical  operations,  audio,  online  and  interactive  production  activities.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• To support the development, management and creation of content on a variety of platforms
• To ensure all content is of a first class standard: thoroughly researched and accurate, and aligned with audience needs and expectations
• To be technically proficient to the requirements of the role and to use a variety of specialist production skills in a multi-skilled environment.
• To direct and coordinate resources in a busy production environment
• To work effectively with other departments, suppliers, partners and talent (internal and external), ensuring the BBC maintains excellent relationships throughout
• To ensure that output complies with BBC editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards, and that the BBC Health and Safety policies are observed
• To ensure BBC output reflects the needs of our audiences

Are you the right candidate?

• An understanding, passion and knowledge of a wide range of music genres featured on the BBC Asian Network and an instinctive understanding and appreciation of modern youth culture and cultural trends
• A creative self-starter with initiative, tenacity and the ability to see how their work fits in with the wider needs of department; able to bring a fresh new approach and bring out creative ideas in others
• Ability to develop creative ideas that engage diverse audiences, in a demanding creative environment, with key understandings of the demographics that the Asian Network caters to
• Able to use firm judgment and understanding of when to seek guidance from experts / escalate issues where appropriate
• An up to date knowledge of the BBC's diverse audiences and their needs and expectations
• Experience of influencing, negotiating and communicating effectively both internally and with external agencies/partners
• A strong communicator and ability to simplify complex problems; proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels and experience managing commercial and contractual relationships with third party suppliers and partners
• Effective planning and organising skills; ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities
• Ability to prioritise a conflicting workload efficiently and to maintain standards of accuracy and attention to detail when working to deadlines or changing priorities

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.
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.