Assistant Media Scheduler

Brands, Marketing and Audiences- Fixed Term - Full Time- Salford, GB, M50 2QH- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 12/05/24**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
**Reference Number**: 14920

**Band**: B
**Contract type**: Fixed Term Contract/Attachment for 6 Months
**Location**: Salford
**Salary**: £24,000 - £27,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

**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 Introduction**:
**Main Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the scheduling and optimising of BBC promotional media content across all platforms.
- Responsible for achieving campaign and cross-promotion targets.
- Responsible for monitoring and tracking channel playout, informing Media Schedulers, Media Portfolio Leads and Campaign Planners of performance/issues.
- Supports in identifying cross promotion opportunities to navigate viewers/listeners to other BBC services/events.
- Supports Media Schedulers to ensure a consistent approach with the promotional content of junctions.
- Supports Media Schedulers to ensure that schedule works to time and meets all the requirements of transmission.
- Ensures the junctions are editorially sound.
- Supports the handover of all aspects of the junction schedule to Playout teams.
- Provides research data and analysis to support Media Planning to predict future audience levels, enabling optimal use of promotional airtime.
- A passion in and knowledge of television/radio/digital output
- An understanding of media research and marketing within a broadcast environment.
- Numerate with excellent attention to detail,
- Good time management and able to work to deadlines.
- An appreciation of scheduling and creative media solutions.
- PC literate with experience of spreadsheet analysis and creation.
- Understanding of the editorial and transmission requirements of a broadcast or media schedule.
- An informed interest in developments in audience research techniques and systems.
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of Ofcom guidelines.

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**DISCLAIMER**:
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.