Riga, LV, LV-1010
Job Closing Date: 26/05/2024
Working in the newly created Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the Business Coordinator role is to support the business (news teams) and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365. BBC World Service is an international news provider, part of BBC News, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on digital, TV and radio. It reaches a weekly audience of around 364 million around the world, helping them make sense of the world we live in. The Business Coordinator role will be based in Riga, providing World Service editorial teams in the region with a wide range of business management services and supporting the delivery of impartial and independent journalism to audiences in 8 languages including Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkish. As the BBC World Service is undergoing transformation, the immediate priority will be to support the move to the new business support model, establishing new ways of working in your relevant patch. Ongoing, you will also work with the Business Partner and Business Advisor to ensure that the business management services remain fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving customer and business needs. Reporting to a Business Advisor based in the UK, the Business Coordinator will partner closely with a number of team leaders in the region to support their teams on key business management activities, including: You will have demonstrable experience of providing administrative support in an international organization; highly organised with a proactive approach, an ability to work with limited supervision and to coordinate a busy workload with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines. In addition: Job title: Business Coordinator Job reference: 15688 Band: C Contract type: FTC until December 2024 Location: Riga, Latvia Final day to apply: 26th May 2024 This is a hybrid role which requires you to work 2-3 days on-site. Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in Latvia. Local terms and conditions apply. 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: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf 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. 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: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf 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.Job introduction
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Riga, LV, LV-1010
Job Closing Date: 26/05/2024
Working in the newly created Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the Business Coordinator role is to support the business (news teams) and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365. BBC World Service is an international news provider, part of BBC News, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on digital, TV and radio. It reaches a weekly audience of around 364 million around the world, helping them make sense of the world we live in. The Business Coordinator role will be based in Riga, providing World Service editorial teams in the region with a wide range of business management services and supporting the delivery of impartial and independent journalism to audiences in 8 languages including Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkish. As the BBC World Service is undergoing transformation, the immediate priority will be to support the move to the new business support model, establishing new ways of working in your relevant patch. Ongoing, you will also work with the Business Partner and Business Advisor to ensure that the business management services remain fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving customer and business needs. Reporting to a Business Advisor based in the UK, the Business Coordinator will partner closely with a number of team leaders in the region to support their teams on key business management activities, including: You will have demonstrable experience of providing administrative support in an international organization; highly organised with a proactive approach, an ability to work with limited supervision and to coordinate a busy workload with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines. In addition: Job title: Business Coordinator Job reference: 15688 Band: C Contract type: FTC until December 2024 Location: Riga, Latvia Final day to apply: 26th May 2024 This is a hybrid role which requires you to work 2-3 days on-site. Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in Latvia. Local terms and conditions apply. 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: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf 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. 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: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf 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.Job introduction
Main responsibilities
Are you the right candidate?
Package detail
About the BBC
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.