Department: BBC Media Action

Grade: 5

Reports To: Communication and Stakeholder Liaison

Based: Kathmandu with possible travel to field locations 

Duration: One Year with possibility of extension subject to funding

Job purpose

Reporting to the Communication and Stakeholder Liaison, the Team Assistant will provide administrative support to the reconstruction radio, outreach and drama team, in order to ensure the smooth and efficient running of productions. S/he will work in partnership with editorial colleagues to help deliver outstanding content for BBC Media Action that is both on time and on budget. 

Main Duties

• Provide administrative support to the production team during the programme planning and implementation process
  
• Coordinate all logistical and administrative issues of the reconstruction radio team, outreach team and drama team, including but not limited to, calendar planning, meeting set up, information collection and dissemination to the team
  
• Responsible for providing the support associated with managing and monitoring budgets for reconstruction radio team, outreach and drama team
  
• Assist Project Director in the preparation and communication of production information
  
• Responsible for assisting in ensuring compliance with BBC policies and guidelines, in order to minimise the BBC’s exposure to risk.  Escalates any issues promptly
  
• Responsible for delivering value for money in the role through the effective and efficient management of time and resources
  
• Understand and support the rationale for new ways of working and/or for adopting new product related technology
  
• Maintain a safe and healthy working environment at all times, escalating any issues or areas of concern
  
• Support Project Director on internal and donor report writing
  

Essential skills and experience

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university.
  
• Must have sound knowledge on the computer (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint) with very good typing speed
  
• Demonstrates strong organisational and planning skills and manages conflicting demands to meet deadlines
  
• Able to use systems and adopt new technologies
  
• Able to find information and resources as required
  
• Effective team worker - able to manage relationships effectively and work collaboratively with a diverse team
  
• Business and finance skills – able to understand and work with budgets
  
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
  
• Understands the importance of BBC values, policies, procedures and guidelines, including Health & Safety guidelines
  
• Demonstrates interest in the BBC and the wider media and development sectors
  
• A good standard of written and spoken English and Nepali
  

Key competencies

The following competencies (behaviours and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate these competencies. 

• Imagination/Creative Thinking: Is able to transform creative ideas/impulses into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
  
• Managing Relationships: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Team working.
  
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
  
• Analytical Thinking: Able to simplify complex problems, process projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically. Able to identify causal relationships and construct frameworks, for problem-solving and/or development.
  
• Influencing and Persuading: Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
  
• Planning and Organising: Is able to think ahead in order to establish an effective and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements
  
• Self-Development: Able to identify and apply opportunities for learning and development
  

TO APPLY:

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send a CV and covering letter outlining your interest in the role, and demonstrating how you fulfil the essential skills and experience, by May 30 2018, to [email protected] (with the job title in the subject line).

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