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Closing date: 9th April 2025Salary: £46,500 - £70,700 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.Contract: This is a fixed-term, full-time role lasting 6 months.Start date: Late May 2025 (Subject to Greenlight)Interviews: Interviews will be held in person or via Zoom week commencing 14th April 2025. We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic self-shooting producer director (SSPD) with observational documentary experience to join the Big Cats 24/7 team.BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit (NHU) is the leading producer of wildlife programming, creating award-winning content with a world class reputation. Our output ranges from ambitious landmarks (Mammals, Green Planet and Planet Earth III) to children’s programming (Go Wild and Andy’s Adventures), as well as ground-breaking travel, adventure, formatted, presenter led and event programming such as The Year The Earth Changed for Apple TV+ and feature documentaries like Lion: The Rise and Fall of the Marsh Pride for BBC.Big Cats 24/7 follows individual big cats (lion, leopard, cheetah) around the clock in one of the wildest places on earth – the Okavango Delta in Botswana. It’s an immersive natural history series that blends premium behaviour-led cinematography, observational documentary and character led narratives. Captured in real time, our SSPD will follow our long lens witness camera operators, scientists and naturalists as they try to find, track and understand the drama taking place in the lives of our big cat families.The SSPD will be highly creative and organised, with excellent sync-based storytelling skills, visual flair, and ability to go on location for extended periods of time. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of effectively filming and producing presenters and / or on-screen contributors on location. They will have a clear and committed understanding of the constraints of budget and be a very good team player.The role includes involvement in research, pre-production and filming on location. There is no edit role associated with this position. Responsibilities<ul><li>To work effectively to ensure all content is thoroughly researched and meets the BBC’s editorial standards.</li><li>To plan strategically to ensure editorial aspirations align with budgets and available resources.</li><li>To shoot and direct onscreen contributors on location, building through them complex observed sync driven narrative sequences in dynamic and changing circumstances.</li><li>To build strong and positive working relationships where cultural differences may be present.</li><li>To be involved in shaping the research of the series with researchers and APs, and setting up filming, working closely at all times to the editorial brief of the Series Producer or Executive Producer.</li><li>Oversee health and safety on location, often in highly specialised areas of filming. </li><li>To shoot sync and actuality with the edit in mind and to broadcast quality.</li><li>To work with wildlife cinematographers to shape behaviour led natural history sequences, alongside the observational elements of the series.</li><li>To do your own sound whilst self-shooting.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Clear evidence of ambitious obs doc filmmaking and the skills, experience and talent to deliver this ambition.</li><li>Excellent self-shooting skills. A successful track record of shooting and directing reactive observational sync with onscreen contributors for broadcast is essential – at least 2 self-shooting PD credits.</li><li>Evidence of ability to produce upsync and develop narrative on the fly is essential. </li><li>The ability in identify and produce multiple key story lines in real time situations.</li><li>Evidence of strong directorial skills working with animal and human contributors</li><li>Evidence of visual flair and strong and emotionally engaging, character-led storytelling.</li><li>Willingness and availability to commit to at least 6 weeks on location at a time – late June to August and late Sept to Nov 2025.</li><li>Experience of living and working out of remote bush camps, which could include sharing cabins/rooms/tents.</li><li>Ability to work well in teams; managing and sharing information and knowledge with editorial and production management colleagues in their team.</li><li>The ability to react appropriately to client strategy/direction and to deliver to the changing requirements.</li><li>Able to manage complex and remote shoots and be responsible for safety on location. Understands ‘duty of care’ with regard to individuals’ wellbeing and production Health &amp; Safety issues.</li><li>Track record of confident and sound editorial judgements with respect to subject matter, contributors, content, presentation, legal and editorial policy, coupled with appropriate referral to EP's/SP's.</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Knowledge of big cats and experience of working closely with them.</li><li>An interest in and experience of using multiple camera technologies such as drone, GoPro, camera traps and thermal cameras.</li><li>Off-road driving experience. </li><li>Knowledge of editorial guidelines and awareness of BBC and statutory policies and regulations relevant to programme making, familiarity with the BBC employment practices and policies such as diversity, equal opportunities, and health and safety guidelines.</li></ul> What will you gain from working at BBC Studios?<ul><li>We offer a competitive salary package</li><li>Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance</li><li>26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days</li><li>Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid</li><li>A defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%; and life assurance (at 4 times annual salary), eligibility for discounted dental, health care, gym and much more through salary sacrifice</li><li>Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation</li></ul> 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.

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Self-shooting producer director, BBC Studios NHU

Salary: £27,000 based in London; £24,840 based outside of London (+ bonus + benefits)Location: The role will be based at our London or Bristol office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. Are you looking for your first job in editorial? Are you interested in illustrated publishing, creative games or jigsaw puzzles?This is a chance to join the team making some of the most beautiful, innovative and successful non-fiction books, gifts and games around!&nbsp;Laurence King is one of the world’s leading publishers of books, gifts and games on the creative arts and popular culture. We work with some of the world’s best illustrators, designers, artists and photographers to create beautifully produced products that are acclaimed for their inventiveness, beautiful design and authoritative texts. Our gift department produces a wide range of non-book products, from jigsaw puzzles and playing cards to reference card decks, memory games and board games.At Orion, we believe every story matters. Open, agile, passionate and innovative, our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Ambitious to continually raise the bar, we believe good stories can come from anywhere and so encourage and value contributions from everybody here. Orion is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds. What you'll be doing<ul><li>We’re looking for an editorial assistant to join our team and help us grow our renowned non-book and book lists, which include many visual art, practical art and lifestyle titles as well as highly illustrated gifts that inspire creativity.</li><li>The editorial assistant is a key role in the team, providing administrative and editorial support to senior editorial colleagues in the acquisition and production of new titles, and assisting with all aspects of administration, co-ordination and driving of the publishing programme across the Laurence King list.</li></ul> Who we are looking forWe are looking for an organised, proactive and flexible assistant with an interest in illustrated publishing or gifts, games and product development.You'll need:<ul><li>Excellent organisational skills</li><li>Keen eye for detail</li><li>Willingness to learn</li><li>Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team</li><li>Customer focused</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentHachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Editorial assistant

Closing date: 6th April 2025Salary: £31,000–£35,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London office, or at our regional offices in Sheffield, Edinburgh, or Bristol, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. Do you love puzzles, games and analogue fun? This is a chance to join the team making some of the most beautiful, innovative and successful gifts and games around!Do you love finding surprising ways to engage your audience? Do you think the best way to learn is by having fun? This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team developing and delivering Laurence King Publishing’s growing gift list of card decks, board games, jigsaw puzzles and more. If you have editorial experience working in illustrated books and are looking for a new challenge, or if you’re coming from a product development or game design background, we’d love to hear from you.Laurence King is one of the world’s leading publishers of books, gifts and games on the creative arts and popular culture. We work with some of the world’s best illustrators, designers, artists and photographers to create beautifully produced products that are acclaimed for their inventiveness, beautiful design and authoritative texts. Our gift department produces a wide range of non-book products, from jigsaw puzzles and playing cards to reference card decks, memory games and board games.At Orion, we believe every story matters. Open, agile, passionate and innovative, our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Ambitious to continually raise the bar, we believe good stories can come from anywhere and so encourage and value contributions from everybody here. Orion is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds. What you'll be doing<ul><li>You will be managing gift projects from initial concept stage to finished product, bringing passion and attention to detail to each title and ensuring that they are delivered on time and on budget.</li><li>You’ll need to work independently to project manage 16–20 titles per year.</li><li>This role will involve copy-editing and proofreading; making corrections in InDesign; checking proofs and plotters; managing freelancers; working with in-house graphic designers and other stakeholders; preparing illustration briefs; checking artworks; organising and attending photo shoots; attending trade fairs and game testing.</li><li>You will also be required to update internal systems and create sales materials, writing copy where necessary.</li><li>It is a flexible role with a strong project management focus, but also a wide scope for creativity in shaping products through their development.</li></ul> Who we are looking forWe are looking for a creative and flexible editor or project manager, with a background in either illustrated publishing or gifts, games and product development, to manage a packed and varied publishing programme. Key attributes include:<ul><li>Passionate about gifts and games</li><li>Keen eye for detail</li><li>Proven editorial experience in illustrated publishing</li><li>Excellent organisational and project management skills</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentHachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Editor, non-book

Closing date: 6th April 2025Salary: £26,500&nbsp;-&nbsp;£29,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.Contract: This is a fixed-term, full-time role lasting 6 months.Start date: You must be available to start by Monday 2nd June.Interviews: Interviews will be held&nbsp;in person on 24th April 2025.Location: Please note this is a position which will be based in our Bristol office and Bristol-based macro studio. Hidden Planet is looking for a junior assistant technical producer (JTAP) to join the team for six months during a busy filming period.BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit (NHU) is the leading producer of wildlife programming, creating award-winning content with a world-class reputation. Our output ranges from ambitious landmarks (Planet Earth III and Dynasties) to children’s programming (Deadly Dinosaurs and Andy’s Adventures), as well as ground-breaking travel, adventure, formatted, presenter-led and event programming such as Prehistoric Planet for Apple TV+ and the BAFTA-winning Springwatch for the BBC.Following the success of The Green Planet, and two decades after the groundbreaking series Life in the Undergrowth, BBC Studios NHU is embarking on an ambitious and innovative global production focussing on the natural history of insects and other invertebrates. Hidden Planet will reveal the real lives, drama and critical importance of the planet's most successful group of animals.The successful candidate will support our series' colleagues, assisting our current JTAP and JCO team, running a production team operational facility, ensuring that the right equipment is available and ready for purpose when required, taking on responsibility for the maintenance of equipment and facility ensuring a high level of organisation. Responsibilities<ul><li>Monitoring stock levels and managing an accurate inventory, forward planning with any future purchasing</li><li>Maintenance of kit/arranging servicing when it returns from location – including specialist macro equipment</li><li>Working with key members of production team to advise, collate and develop kit lists for upcoming shoots</li><li>Help liaise with and source specialist equipment from suppliers, often specialists in the macro field.</li><li>Oversee the prep, packing and organisation of equipment, including loading &amp; unloading from vehicles at the beginning and end of shoots.</li><li>Contributing key information required for shipping equipment around the world</li><li>Working within the parameters of a budget</li><li>Researching, advising and sourcing kit purchases ensuring the team is across the latest filming techniques and developments. Particularly, exploring innovative motion control kit, the use of NeRF environments, photogrammetry and focus-stacking technology.</li><li>Assisting with macro shoot set-ups in our dedicated studio on the outskirts of Bristol</li><li>Being main point of contact for the production team and location crew within specified parameters</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>We’re looking for people who are passionate and inquisitive when it comes to all things technical regarding macro wildlife filming.</li><li>Your technical expertise should include an understanding of the underlying principles of video and still digital photography; hands-on operation of digital cameras &amp; macro equipment together with a good knowledge of and familiarity with all the equipment and a reason for its use. </li><li>You must have demonstrable experience of, and a particular interest in, macro photography and new technology, with a working knowledge of specialist macro equipment.</li><li>You should have a good knowledge of safety and welfare regulations and understanding instructions relating to the base or facility operation.</li><li>You'll be able to work quickly and accurately under pressure, to constantly changing deadlines, and use your initiative to solve problems.</li><li>Ideally you’ll have experience of working with high end broadcast and cinema cameras, as well as working on location with film crews.</li></ul> What will you gain from working at BBC Studios?<ul><li>We offer a competitive salary package</li><li>Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid</li><li>26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days</li><li>A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more</li><li>A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</li><li>Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation</li></ul> We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us on <a href="mailto:reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk</a>.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Junior assistant technical producer, Hidden Planet, BBC Studios NHU

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