Resource Schedulers, Central Scheduling

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 3 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Job Introduction

Working within a central, professional, team of resource schedulers you’ll look aft er the day-to-day schedules for News staff . This role works across a range of journalistic and operational teams within BBC News & Current Affairs and across teams with a range of skills and ways of working. Ideally, you will need experience of working to tight deadlines in a 24/7/365 environment and adapting to last minute changes to ensure the right staff are delivered to the right areas at the right time. As a member of a team of schedulers, you will be expected to move around the structure to help support your colleagues and allow for the work to be managed fairly across the wider team and according to skills and experience. This is a Hybrid role with an expectation that you will come into the building at least once per 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.

Main Responsibilities

Working within a centralised team of Resource Schedulers you’ll look after the day-to-day and the forward planning of schedules for staff in a wide range of teams. 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 programme output teams, the business community and with your Senior Resource Scheduler and/or Business Advisor 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 systems such as Allocate, Teampay and Smartbook, this includes month end overtime processes, and some financial duties relating to payments for staff and freelance effort. Finally, you will forward plan schedules and react to on-the-day changes to provide efficient staffing for required shifts, this may include contingency planning in line with programming strategy and priorities as determined with your Business Advisor.

Are you the right candidate?

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 first-class communicator, capable of delivering complex 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 and demanding environment and be able to respond to situations quickly to accommodate changing needs, at very short notice.

Package Description

Band: B

Contract type: 3 attachments/ftcs:  1 x 12 month based in London; 1 x 12 month & 1 x 6 month based in Salford on offer – please let us know which roles you are interested in on your application.

Location: London & Salford

Salary expectation from £24,039 + London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 26days (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 .

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.


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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