Assistant producer, digital, BBC Radio 2 (BBC Audio)

Closing date for applications: 28 September 2025

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 plus London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Broadcasting House, London

Contract type: Fixed-term contract/attachment, full-time (6 months)

Department: BBC Audio, Radio 2

Job band: C

Do you love creating scroll-stopping content? Join the UK's most popular radio station and use your filming and editing skills to bring shows to life across social platforms.

Radio 2 is the UK’s most popular radio station, providing programming across varied musical genres, popular culture and entertainment. The output includes high profile and specialist presenters as well as speech and event production. BBC Audio devises, develops and delivers original content for the BBC. Our portfolio of Radio 2 programmes includes Scott Mills, Vernon Kay, Trevor Nelson, Sara Cox, Jo Whiley and DJ Spoony. This is an opportunity to work as an assistant producer on digital content (social and video) across Radio 2 Daytime shows, for BBC Audio.


Responsibilities

• The assistant producer will originate and produce excellent digital content for Radio 2 Daytime programmes
• This role will contribute creative ideas, as well as bringing digital content production skills, which may involve research, technical operations, audio, digital, online and interactive production activities
• You will be required to film, edit and help to produce engaging digital content, while working with the wider social and digital team to generate ideas
• You will also be working closely with presenters and production teams to bring these ideas to life, and uplift the BBC Radio 2 brand on socials
• You will be crafting, and optimising social content for social platforms (in particular Instagram, and TikTok), and you will ensure our content fits with the BBC Radio 2 strategy and reflects our diverse audiences

Knowledge, skills & experience

• You will have experience in creating first class digital content for social media and video platforms, with good filming skills and experience in post-shoot media management and post-production process
• You will have worked in a broadcast or content production environment and in a live studio environment
• You will have a great understanding of optimising content for social platforms, including editing aspect ratio and dimensions, adding captions, transitions, motion graphics, etc., and you will have experience in writing engaging digital copy and publishing social content
• You will have good video and image editing skills, experience working within the Adobe Creative Suite, filming on mobile and using a variety of apps, filters and sound options to create impactful social formats for platforms such as TikTok, Reels or Shorts
• Knowledge of BBC editorial guidelines, compliance policies, accuracy and impartiality - or the ability to gain this knowledge quickly

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.