Job Introduction

It’s an exciting time to be part of the BBC team in North America. BBC News is committed to creating a more diverse, inclusive and agile organisation that responds quickly to changing audience needs, provides you with exceptional career opportunities, and strengthens our position as a world-leading source of trusted and impartial news. 

We are looking for an experienced Business Coordinator / HR Advisor to join the team as the Washington bureau rapidly expands. 

Role Responsibility

The Business Coordinator / HR Advisor role is a varied role supporting different areas of the Bureau. Responsibilities include reviewing and certifying process expenses ensuring they are compliant with the BBC expense policy and guidelines, processing all payments using the financial system Quickbooks. This includes updating and maintaining various financial spreadsheets using Excel.

You will assist with production rota and general HR activities, ensuring all commissioning budgets are signed off by Production Operations Manager. You will also assist with on location productions acting as Production Coordinator as required.

You will also keep up to date with general bureau administration as directed by you line manager, this could include duties such as booking flights or hotels for BBCX Projects.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will:

• Have previous HR generalist experience.
• Be proficient in using Excel for reporting and have experience using Excel in a previous role. 
• Be organised, with the ability to prioritise your own workload effectively, to coordinate activities and conflicting demands to ensure that tight deadlines are met.
• Have finance knowledge and experience.
• Previous media experience is desired but not essential.

Package Description

Contract type: Continuing Full Time
Location: Washington 

All candidates MUST have the right to work in the United States. 

• Excellent career progression â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package and other benefits.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

About the Company

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 in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here