Commercial, Rights & Bus Affairs Assit-Welsh (FTC 12 months)

Package Description

Job Reference: 24045

Band: B

Salary:£28,000 -£32,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is Cardiff (: This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

Job Band

B

About Bbc Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

ABOUT The Commercial Rights Team

The Drama Business Affairs team supports BBC Studios Drama Productions by providing legal, commercial, and business affairs guidance, working on intellectual property rights, contributor agreements, and the development of drama projects. As a Business Affairs Assistant, you’ll gain exposure to the full scripted production process, assist with contracts, clearance, negotiations, and legal research, with a focus on Welsh-language productions like Pobol Y Cwm but also supporting flagship shows like EastEnders, Casualty and Silent Witness. Fluency in Welsh and an understanding of BBC programming is essential.

THE ROLE

Role

The role purpose is to support the BBC in acquiring, creating, and distributing Intellectual Property to maximise audience value and commercial return in a digital, global, and commercial environment by:

• Providing excellent contract and rights administration.
• Providing excellent business support and team coordination.
• Using systems and processes efficiently and effectively.
• Maintaining strong, collaborative working relationships internally and externally
• The role requires a ‘one BBC’ approach with close teamwork and/or embedded ways of working with all Divisions across the organisation. This is central to our purpose and culture and is critical to this role.
  
  

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

Essential Criteria

• Good interpersonal skills and experience of developing good working relationships.
• Excellent IT skills with experience of databases and administration systems.
• Excellent organisation, coordination, and time management skills.
• Good attention to detail and the ability to examine and summarise complex data.
• Basic level of understanding of IP and contract law in England and Wales.
• Fluent in Welsh.
  
  

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of production and deal-making
• Knowledge of historic BBCS contracting systems
  
  

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here. We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
• 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.
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation
  
  

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.