Resource Schedulers

Job Introduction
UK Operations is at the heart of BBC News’ creative technical and production capability. We are responsible for gathering all the news on location across all platforms, as well as all news studios at NBH and Millbank in London and at MediaCity in Salford.

Output Operations is a key part of this work. We operate 24/7 at the heart of BBC News’ creative, technical and production capability. Our teams support programme output across Radio, TV and Online and our schedulers are a highly valued and integral part of the operation. We work with a wide range of News output including for example Today, PM, Sports, World Service English and Language Service programming in Radio, and in Television, the 6 o’clock and 10 o’clock News, BBC World, Persian TV, Arabic TV and Newsnight.

We are pleased to be able to advertise a continuing role for a Resource Scheduler within our London Output Operations team. Through our close and creative partnership with editorial teams, this position is vital to scheduling staff and resources to programme output, across both TV and Radio facilities.

Main Responsibilities

You will work with the team co-ordinating the daily running of our Operations department. This involves scheduling staff & technical facilities in accordance with programme requirements and conditions of service, helping manage the day-to-day running of the office, providing management information and support, and operating to the appropriate degree of competency across a range of systems (primarily ScheduAll and Allocate - training on these systems will be provided if needed).
- Experience scheduling large teams of staff in a shift working environment.
- Excellent planning, organisational and communication skills, as well as demonstrating the ability to learn new processes quickly and efficiently
- The ability to make best use of business systems, processes and the scheduling team’s skills
- Experience of allocations and admin systems such as Smartbook, SAP purchasing, Allocate, ScheduALL etc
- Extensive knowledge of the Working Time Directive combined with an understanding of how to schedule to company policies.
- Extensive knowledge of craft skillsets required for Live TV News

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Package Description

Band: B

Base: London

Contract: 1 x Continuing role

**Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.**
- **_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 (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.

**Job Application Requirements**:

- CV
- Questionnaire with opportunity to detail your experience