Line Producer - Documentary Unit, BBC Studios

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  • London  
    London, United Kingdom
    freelance, temp to perm  
  • Company
    BBC  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    1st August 2022 to 28th July 2023  
    Wage
    Competitive
  • Closing date
    8 July 2022  
    Posted on
    5 July 2022  

The Documentary Unit is the home of high quality, thought provoking and award-winning factual content. Powerful storytelling is at the heart of what we do. Our distinctive, ambitious and informative output ranges from observational access to live programming, from premium co-productions series to podcasts.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Line Producer to work based out of Television Centre, London on an ambitious new history series, w/t Julius Caesar: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (3 x 60’) for BBC TWO and PBS in the USA. The contract dates are from 1st August 2022 to 28th July 2023.

The series will involve foreign filming including at historic monuments, heavy use of archive footage, graphics and drama reconstruction sequences.

Role Responsibility:

  • You will demonstrate excellent leadership skills and be comfortable working at a high level.
  • You need to be capable of challenging and influencing key decision not just managing decisions that are made.
  • You will bring a wealth of experience at a senior Production Management level.
  • You will be adept at creating a positive working environment and at communicating to all levels with clarity.
  • You will work in partnership with senior editorial colleagues, to deliver the very best content to a global audience.
  • You need to be forward thinking with a positive outlook and demonstrate resilience in challenging situations.

Are you the right candidate?

  • Prior experience in UK & foreign filming. Extensive management of crews in remote locations and prior experience in dealing with numerous agencies including fixers, embassies and other foreign agencies
  • Experience in drama-documentary or with drama-reconstruction sequences.
  • Experience working with archive material and copyright.
  • Proven ability to juggle multiple projects at any one time; driving forward progress and ensuring deadlines are met and priorities are clearly communicated. Rescheduling and budgeting new options where necessary
  • A proven track record of working with broad range of external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrable experienced in leading contract negotiations and dealing with complex insurance and business affairs issues.
  • Confidence in large budget management. Adjusting forecasts and predicted spends, negotiating unusual/one off deals where necessary.
  • Driving savings, efficiencies and continually reviewing working practices to ensure best practice and on screen value for money.
  • Demonstrable experience in the day to day management of production staff, undertaking responsibility for their recruitment, appraisal and training.
  • Extensive management of large production teams and crews.
  • Excellent working relationships with suppliers in the outside broadcast market and wider industry.
  • A sound understanding of health and safety procedures.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the applicationThere 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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

About the BBC:

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 in the document attached below.

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 visit our site

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