1 Permanent position Opportunity in Scotland

We have an exciting opportunity for a scheduler to join our team at STV based in Glasgow.

STV Group plc is Scotland’s home of news, entertainment and drama, serving audiences with quality content on air, online and on demand. STV’s broadcast channel, accessible free-to-air on all the main TV platforms in Scotland, reaches 3.2 million viewers each month. Additionally, STV’s rapidly growing, free streaming service, STV Player is now pre-installed in three quarters of the UK’s connected TV homes and is available on all major platforms, including Sky Q, Now TV, Virgin Media, Amazon Fire TV and Freeview Play. The Group’s award-winning production business, STV Studios, is one of the UK’s leading content businesses, creating and producing content for UK and international broadcasters and is Scotland’s biggest production company.

Reporting to the head of scheduling & planning, you will be responsible for TV schedule planning for STV via dedicated scheduling systems and adherence to licence requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic scheduling of all STV programmes, promotions and sponsorship
• Compile and deliver transmission schedules, ensuring compliance with STV licence requirements
• Maintaining tracker of our regional programme output
• Analysis of Ofcom minutage tracker, identifying any potential problems and making recommendations for their timely resolution
• Produce weekly TV listings information to meet deadlines
• Maintain effective working relationships with ITV scheduling, planning and presentation
• Assist in any other aspects of the work of the company as reasonably required

Knowledge, skills, experience

• High level of self-initiative and the ability to work accurately under pressure to meet the demands of a fast-paced working environment
• Determination and drive to succeed and to overcome obstacles
• Attention to detail, the ability to prioritise/meet deadlines and adapt to a varied workload
• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to collaborate and build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong IT skills including MS Office and Internet, and the ability to learn new packages including scheduling systems
• Maintaining workflow for internal departments

Desirable

• Knowledge of programme scheduling, programme ratings and their relationship to scheduling requirements is desirable

Join us

If you have a demonstrable track record of delivery in a related role, we would love to hear from you. To apply please send a covering letter and full CV to hr@stv.tv

BENEFITS

There are plenty of reasons why it’s great to work at STV, here are just a few of the perks for you:

• 25 days paid annual leave and 9 public holidays per annum, with the option to buy more through our Holiday Extras scheme
• An extra day’s holiday on your birthday
• Healthcare cash plan providing Company contributions towards dental, optical, wellbeing or other healthcare costs
• Company pension contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket travel loan
• On-site occupational health service
• Flexible benefits portal providing a range of retail and gym discounts

We’re happy to talk about hybrid working to help you balance work, life, and to achieve your goals in both – we’re focused on creating an inclusive working environment where colleagues can collaborate, create and thrive to deliver results and perform at their best.

Closing date: 22 June 2022

STV is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce and to equality of opportunity for all. We encourage applications from candidates currently under-represented in our industry, so we are keen to hear from people from an ethnically diverse background, disabled and/or neuro diverse people and those from a lower socio-economic background.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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