Resource Scheduler (Media Operations)

BBC Media Operations is at the heart of teams delivering incredible content across all our platforms for all audiences. Comprising around nine hundred people, it manages the craft and production operations for the BBC's news, radio, and some sport services across London, Salford, and Birmingham - capturing, editing, and producing our output 24x7 for TV, radio, and digital platforms. Our team are experts in their field with exceptional technical, operational and production creativity at their heart. Working closely together with our editorial colleagues, we co-create content reaching millions of people across the UK and the World daily. The team is also responsible for the management of production services, editing and post production, stores, and some audio, fleet vehicles and OB bases in England.
Working within a central team of resource schedulers you'll look after the day-to-day schedules for Media Operations staff and facilities. You will often be working to tight deadlines in a 24/7/365 environment and adapting to last minute changes making sure that staff with the appropriate skills are allocated to the required operational environment at the right time. From time to time, you may be expected to take on work in other parts of the scheduling structure to help support your scheduling colleagues and allow for the work to be managed fairly across the wider team, according to skills and experience.
This is a Hybrid role with an expectation that you will come into the building at least twice a week and depending on business requirement, more often, particularly for any training or development needs and according to the operational needs of the team you will be scheduling., You will be expected to look after the day-to-day and/or the forward planning of schedules for a number of staff within the wider operation. You will be responsible for ensuring that the business workload is met by suitably skilled and experienced staff and will be a point of contact for queries and requests from the teams you schedule and other stakeholders. You will carry this out in accordance with BBC Terms and Conditions and HR Policies, liaising closely with the Media Operations management team, the teams you schedule and the wider scheduling team to ensure scheduling best practice is followed at all times. You will also be responsible for administering and managing all documentation associated with this process, using the associated systems and including timesheet processes, and some financial duties relating to charging, payments for staff and freelance effort.

You will have exceptional organisation and planning skills and have a very high level of attention to detail. You will have experience of adopting new system workflows and carrying out business processes to a high standard. You will also need to be a great communicator, capable of delivering information in an accessible way, to a range of people. You will be able to work pragmatically and independently, resolving issues and finding solutions in a creative and timely manner. Finally, you will have the ability to work flexibly, in a fast-paced environment and be able to respond to situations quickly to accommodate changing needs.

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.

Salary: £24,300- £30,400 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. The successful candidate will also receive a London Weighting allowance of £5,319 per annum.

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days annual leave (1 of which is a corporation day) 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

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.