Commercial, Rights & Bus Affairs Assit

To support the BBC in acquiring, creating and distributing Intellectual Property to maximise audience value and commercial return in a digital, global and commercial environment by:

• Providing excellent contract and rights administration
• Providing excellent business support and team coordination
• Using systems and processes efficiently and effectively
• Maintaining strong, collaborative working relationships internally and externally
The role requires a 'one BBC' approach with close teamwork and/or embedded ways of working with all Divisions across the organisation. This is central to our purpose and culture and is critical to this role., Contract and rights administration: To carry out all aspects of contract and rights administration effectively and efficiently. To research and identify holders of copyright, providing fee and clearance information as required, and issuing documentation. 2. Business support and team coordination: To ensure all relevant BBC business processes(including contract management and internal referral and approval frameworks) are followed. To ensure effective coordination across and between central and embedded CRBA functions in all Divisions. To deal with client correspondence and a range of reporting. 3. Business systems: To reduce contractual documentation and ensure information on business systems (for example ACON and OnAir) and databases are current and maintained. 4. Stakeholder management: To build and maintain effective working relationships, internally and externally, and to be a recognised point of contact for all parties dealing with CRBA. To deal with routine enquiries and escalate issues as necessary. 5. Document management and record keeping: To maintain excellent document management and record keeping, ensuring data integrity, accuracy and timeliness. To process contractual payments efficiently. Support for commercial deal making: To assist with the delivery of commercial deals in a variety of different businesses, collating information and creating contractual documents as required 6. Support for funding proposals: To assist with the formulation and submission of investment proposals. 7. Events: To assist with the preparations for markets and festivals, including collating editorial information, sourcing clips and promos. 8. Research: To assist or undertake research projects. 9. Deputising: To deputise and act up at Executive level as required,
• Ensure work conforms to agreed quality standards, guidelines and procedures.
• Acts proactively but exercises judgment about escalating issues.
• Manages own and others' time to achieve specified short-term targets.
• Maintains strong working relationships and provides a point of contact and support.
• Success is assessed by review of achievements against targets.
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 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.


• Good interpersonal skills and experience of developing good working relationships.
• Excellent IT skills with experience of databases and administration systems.
• Excellent organisation, coordination and time management skills.
• Good attention to detail and the ability to examine and summarise complex data.
• An approach that encompasses proactivity, flexibility, resilience, passion and energy.
Desirable
• Knowledge of production and deal-making.
• Detailed knowledge of contracting systems.
  
  Salary: £24,300-£31,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: Salford (Quay House) Contract: Fixed Term Contract ending March 2026 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].