Package Description:

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• 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:

BBC Studios Entertainment & Music, home to some of the UK’s biggest and most loved entertainment and music shows including Strictly Come Dancing, Weakest Link and Eurovision is currently looking for enthusiastic ideas generators with a passion for entertainment.

If you’re constantly coming up with bold new ideas for shows, as well as binge-watching every new entertainment and reality series, we’d love to hear from you.

Band: B
Contract type: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract/Attachment
Location: London TVC

Main Responsibilities:

This London-based development team focuses on winning commissions for linear broadcasters and the SVODs. Our remit is to create returnable, global Entertainment brands. You should have a good knowledge of the UK market and a successful applicant will need to keep across the latest developments in the unscripted and reality genres globally.

• You will have an understanding of what makes a hit entertainment series.
• You will need to show you have good writing skills and you will need to be a good team player and communicator.

Are you the right candidate?

• You will have a minimum of 3 months experience at Development Researcher level
• Thorough research skills to ensure ideas have a strong ‘why now’ and authenticity at their heart.
• Proven success in coming up with ideas for original non-scripted formats in the reality, competition and bold formats space would be ideal.
• You will have a passion for developing new content across channels and platforms with the desire to build on the success of our established brands.
• You will relish developing creative and innovative new ideas showing an awareness of the television market in the UK and the US, keeping across new trends and talent within television, in particular with regards to reality.
• Working across a slate of development ideas and managing time and resources, you will have excellent communication skills, writing fast turnaround documents and contributing to the production of decks and taster tapes to aid with winning commissions.
• Experience of Power-point and Premiere is preferred.
• Excellent people skills.
• Production experience is desirable but not required.
• Experience in handling confidential and/or controversial information with tact and sensitivity.

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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.

Number of Positions: 1
Contract Type: Fixed Term – Full Time
Salary: Within salary band
Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Category: Content Production
BBC Region / Division: BBC Studios
BBC Business Unit: Studios - Ents, Music

Additional Requirements

• Minimum of 3 months experience
• Excellent people skills