YouTube Channel Manager

Job Band
: C
Contract Type
:
Full Time Attachment/Fixed Term Contract Until March 2027
Department: BBC Children’s & Education
Location
:
Salford – Hybrid
Proposed Salary Range
: £32,000 - £37,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Please note this role will be mapped to our internal CPF title of Senior Scheduling Coordinator

Join the BBC Children’s & Education You Tube team as a You Tube Channel Manager helping to deliver creative excellence with a strategic vision. You’ll be managing multiple You Tube channels, taking ownership of key brands and formats that connect with UK youth audiences. You’ll understand how to produce first-class You Tube content, manage ongoing schedules and be able to communicate results and analytics to stakeholders.

You’ll be joining a team of creative when your ideas will be brought to life and your strategic vision nurtured. You’ll gain hands on experience working across multiple brands and moments with a range of teams including commissioning, marketing and digital. You can expect a creative, inclusive environment that values collaboration.

• Plan ongoing strategic schedules of You Tube first content across multiple genre-led channels
• Work with internal teams to ensure content is authentic to the platform
• Produce creative briefs and edits of top-quality You Tube content that speak to our audience
• Use audience data and analytics to inform decision making and performance in line with KPIs
• Keep abreast of current trends and perform ongoing competitor analysis
• Experience managing branded You Tube channels is key – you’ll have in-depth understanding of the platform, thumbnail strategies and performance optimisation
• An understanding of You Tube content for a youth audience
• Proficient editing skills using Adobe Suite (Photoshop and Premiere Pro)
• An understanding of You Tube analytics and how to use data to inform decision making
• The ability to work with wider teams to brief content, develop ideas and feed back on performance to stakeholders

• Experience working with TV productions
• Experience working across other digital platforms, such as Tik Tok and Instagram

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.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

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Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an…