Researcher, Bitesize Futures

JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: x2 Fixed-term Contract / Attachment, Full-time (01 April 26 - 01 January 27 & 04 May 26 - 29 January 27)
DEPARTMENT:
Children's & Education, BBC Bitesize

LOCATION:

Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,600 - £31,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

As the BBC’s formal learning website, Bitesize helps millions of students to progress their education. Researchers are integral to the success of the teams delivering content. You will work closely with Bitesize Producers and Assistant Producers, focusing on the future of personalised learning, creating curriculum aligned questions, digital interactions, and innovative content across the web, app and email newsletters.

BBC Bitesize exists to transform lives through education. That clear vision drives everything we do. Our aims are to:

• Provide every child in the UK with a personalised learning experience through the excellent content available on BBC Bitesize.
• Support and inspire classroom learning with world-class, curriculum-linked programming through BBC Bitesize for Teachers.
• Address societal and educational deficits within the UK through campaigns, such as BBC Super Movers and BBC 500 Words.

• You will play a key role in the delivery of a new personalised adaptive learning experience for GCSE students.
• You will create, edit and publish large volumes of question content for key GCSE subjects including text, images, video and audio.
• You will work with educational consultants and colleagues in Product Group to refine and publish content with educational impact.
• You will work on newsletters and content curation to reach new audiences.
• You will optimise and edit content to improve visibility on external platforms.

• Digital content: Experience of creating high quality online digital content for web and/or app using CMS systems.
• User Insights: Ability to initiate, set up and run user testing and/or audience insight sessions and compile and share the findings with teams.
• Project management: Able to work within defined project-management workflows to deliver their elements of complex digital projects effectively.
• Audience awareness: Experience of the Bitesize audience, the digital education marketplace and the user needs and digital media habits of 5-16 year olds. An appreciation of curriculum learning outcomes and editorial standards.
• Relationship management: Experience of working with suppliers, consultants and writers to commission and review content including images and large volume of question formats.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

This role requires a relevant DBS check to be undertaken by the BBC at the appropriate level, at the point of offer of a contract of employment.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

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