Public Relations Specialist

2 weeks ago

Salford, Salford, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Job Purpose

We are seeking a skilled Public Relations Specialist to join our team at the BBC. This is a twelve-month fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave.

This role presents a great opportunity to deliver communications and events activity for BBC Sport. Sitting within the BBC England Communications team, it offers someone the chance to showcase their creativity and communications skills to tell audiences about our world-class content and lead the publicity campaigns for a broad range of high-profile shows and events.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a Public Relations Specialist, you will lead the publicity campaigns for a mix of titles commissioned and produced by BBC Sport. You will be passionate and enthusiastic about sport, TV, and the industry and have responsibility for finding different ways to generate interest in what we do.

You will be a creative communications professional who can plan and execute proactive publicity campaigns, identify and manage reputational issues, and work closely with talent and production executives.

You will spot opportunities to maximise coverage across a range of media, including print and online press, broadcast, podcasts, and social media. You will plan events and collaborate with internal teams across the BBC to deliver effective campaigns that drive audiences and reach them wherever they are.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience


• Experience in creatively promoting content with an understanding of how to utilise social media and digital opportunities to build interest


• Passion for sport and ideally experience in a sport comms role


• Knowing how to run publicity campaigns and successfully plan and handle announcements to secure print, online, and broadcast coverage that reaches the most appropriate audience wherever they are


• A creative thinker that can maximise publicity opportunities through multiple channels with the ability to plan events that deliver content and drive attribution


• Proven track record working with both established and new talent


• A great writer who can tailor their style to create stimulating copy for different mediums


• A good understanding of the news agenda and cycle, with experience of using that knowledge to quickly spot a potential story and identifying ways to generate coverage


• Experience of identifying and effectively managing reputational issues


• An interest and passion for television, plus a demonstrable understanding of the broadcasting landscape and industry, plus knowledge of the BBC's organisational structure and policies


• A level of interpersonal and persuasion skills sufficient to enable the post holder to establish and maintain credible and effective working relationships with a wide range of contacts, including contributors, talent, commissioners, producers, agents, and journalists


• A natural collaborator with the confidence, tenacity, and ability to work on initiative


• Willingness to work in the evenings and weekends when required, including being part of the on-call rota

Package Description

Job Reference: 18432

Band: C

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000pa depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Twelve-month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Office Base is Salford: This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

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.

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About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means that those employees seeking redeployment will have their application 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 here.

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.

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