Team Assistant

Administrative Services
- Fixed Term - Full Time
- Salford, GB, M50 2HQ
- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
- Job Closing Date: 02/03/2025

**THE ROLE**:
**Package Description**:
**Job Reference**:21552

**Band**:B

**Salary**:Up to £28,376 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

**Contract type**: 10 Month FTC

**Location**: Salford
- **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, gym and much more.

**Job Information**:
Working in the Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to support the business and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365. The Team Assistant role will assist the team to support a range of teams based in Salford and across the UK to ensure that the team’s administrative and operational support remains fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving team and business needs.

**Main Responsibilities**:
The Team Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative and operational assistance to the team which provides a wide range of business support services to editorial and operational teams to enable the business unit to achieve its objectives. The assistance will include maintaining, efficiently operating and improving a range of office and administrative processes and systems; preparing documents, presentations and other materials; making routine arrangements, bookings and supporting the effective co-ordination and running of team meetings; and preparing, manipulating and analysing data.
- Demonstrable experience of providing administrative assistance, ideally in a team of similar complexity and in the media sector.
- Highly organised with a flexible and proactive approach and an ability to prioritise and to co-ordinate a busy workload to tight deadlines.
- High attention to detail and practical experience of gathering, analysing, collating and presenting data and information in a range of formats.
- Strong computer skills with solid experience of office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preferably of other administrative systems.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, working well with a range of people at all levels and able to target the communication to the audience

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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.