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BBC Asian Network is the UK’s biggest Asian multi-platform radio station celebrating British Asian identity - the culture, music and conversation that influence British Asians today. Asian Network Breakfast is moving studios from London to Birmingham in 2025 so we have a rare and exciting opportunity to join popular and vibrant BBC presenter Nikita Kanda. If you’re passionate about Breakfast radio, have an excellent understanding of culture relevant to the Asian Network audience, are tapped into popular trends especially music and social media, with a proven track record of thriving in a creative environment - then we’d love to hear from you.
This is a production position working for BBC Audio. We devise, develop and deliver original content for the BBC. We are a key supplier of daytime, evening programmes and podcasts across Asian Network, Radio 1 and 1Xtra. These stations look to connect the BBC with the next generation of young audiences and be the leading voice in UK youth culture. Our portfolio includes Asian Network Breakfast with Nikita Kanda, Haroon Rashid, Brown Girls Do It Too, Big Boy Energy, Not Even Water, Certified, Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James, 1Xtra Breakfast with Nadia Jae and many more. You can find out more about us here: www.bbc.co.uk/bbcaudio/
Main Responsibilities
As a Content Assistant (CA) you'll be a key member of production, providing a mixture of administrative and creative support to the Assistant Producers and Producers as needed across the Asian Network. This support could take a range of forms, including uploading and maintaining website content, editing audio, video and/or images; you will be key in the delivery of our PRS legal requirements (Performing Rights Society – Music Reporting) as well as acting as a first point of contact between production, our contributors and audiences. We don't expect you to know how our systems work, we will train you when you join. But, we are looking for someone who is keen to learn, who is excellent at planning and organisation but above all is passionate about the Asian Network. In this role you will rapidly familiarise yourself with the end-to-end process of commissioning, producing, and delivering content on a large scale, enabling you to work towards future progression into content production roles.

Requirements

Are you the right candidate?
You should have an interest and passion for BBC Asian Network and the music and culture we celebrate.
This position would suit somebody interested in building a career in radio content production. This need not have been professional - you may have produced content as part of a school, college or university project, work experience, voluntary work or have gained experience of working at community radio or university radio station, creating blogs or YouTube videos.
You will have excellent problem-solving skills and a keen eye for detail, especially with written material and images.
As this role will involve working proactively to meet time sensitive demands, with a wide range of stakeholders, you should also have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team. Using your initiative will be encouraged!
You should have good online literacy and be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for the latest technologies and content formats, including social media.
You could be working with some of the world's experts in youth culture. This is an unmissable opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you!
Location: Mailbox, Birmingham
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 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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

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Posted on Nov 28

Birmingham, England, UK

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Content Assistant, BBC Asian Network (BBC Audio), Birmingham

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