Closing date for applications: 30th July 2025
Salary: £26,000 - £32,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract: Fixed-term contract / attachment, full-time (ASAP to 28 November 2025)
Location: Salford – hybrid
Department: BBC children's & education
Bring BBC Children's favourites to life on YouTube as a channel coordinator, crafting engaging content for young audiences.
We’re looking for a creative and focused YouTube Channel Co-ordinator to join our YouTube team within the BBC Children’s and Education department. This is an exciting opportunity to craft, maintain engaging content and develop strategies that amplify our BBC Children’s brands and campaigns to preschool and young audiences on the world’s biggest video platform.
Our team works across the full range of our young audiences offering, from pre-school CBeebies featuring talent and brands such as Andy Day, Bluey, Hey Duggee, Numberblocks up to the likes of Horrible Histories, Operation Ouch, Shaun the Sheep, BBC Newsround and Bitesize GCSE.
You will be part of a team that is central to communicating our brand values, delivering our public service, driving reach and growth and supporting the launch of BBC programmes, services and initiatives across our BBC Children’s and Education YouTube channels.
Responsibilities
- Support scheduling and transmission by handling inquiries, updating systems accurately, and coordinating with internal teams
- Create engaging visual and video content, including thumbnails and edited clips from BBC material to boost viewer retention and storytelling
- Collaborate with schedule managers and coordinators to prepare, adjust, and maintain content schedules, ensuring compliance and audience suitability
- Manage scheduling logistics, including standby content, cancellations, last-minute changes, and detailed attributes under guidance
- Monitor scheduling performance, flag issues or trends, and help resolve content-related problems with senior team members
- Ensure editorial and compliance standards are met across scheduled content, escalating concerns when necessary
- Co-ordinate cross-platform content adaptation and track content availability and rights status to maintain consistency and accuracy
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
- Professional experience in YouTube content strategy – including hands-on use of SEO, metadata, thumbnails, playlists, and optimisation techniques to drive reach, watch time, and audience growth
- Proven track record in content co-ordination or scheduling – with strong organisational skills and experience managing publishing calendars, workflows and deadlines in a fast-paced media or digital environment
- Skilled in industry-standard tools – with experience in video and image editing tools (e.g. Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop), and platforms like YouTube Studio
- Background in children’s media or youth content – with a strong understanding of UK kids’ brands and audience engagement strategies for preschool through to tween demographics
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams
Desirable
- Experience working within public service media or educational content
- Experience with YouTube live streaming or premieres
- Knowledge of performance metrics beyond YouTube
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Junior