Audience Research Assistant Audience Research Assistant

What does a Research Assistant do?
Our Research Assistants get to experience first-hand the variety of tools we use to tell the business about the audience. Have you ever wondered how we know how successful Match of the Day is, or how sports fans like to feed their passion?

We know this because we use all sorts of things to help us. For example there are industry data sets like BARB that tell us about TV viewing behaviour. We have trackers that tell us what our audience likes. Sometimes we don't have answers to hand so we commission research to find out. We like to know all there is about our wonderful Sport and 5 Live audience. We are passionate about making the BBC a more relevant place that reflects the diversity of the UK today.

What happens to all this information?
All of the things we learn are shared with important teams that then go on to make the content, decide what goes on the channels or services, or promote it to audiences. We get involved in a wide variety of decisions across BBC Sport and 5 Live.

We need you in our BBC Sport & 5 Live Audience Research department! We are looking for a bright, motivated individual, who can bring something new to the BBC. Our department is at the heart of everything we do here and by joining as a Research Assistant you will get to experience first-hand the variety of what we do. Our Research Assistants have gone on to do brilliant things, whether it's a career at the BBC or beyond into the commercial world., All sorts of qualities and no two RAs are the same. Are you curious? Do you like to know what makes people tick? Do you enjoy looking for patterns in data? Are you passionate about media content? Can you tell a story from Qualitative and Quantitative data? This may well be the job for you.

You will also need:

• Strong numerical skills


• Strong analytical skills


• Strong written communication


• Strong verbal communication


• Strong attention to detail
  
  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.


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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.

Salary: £21,900 - £27,000 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.