Full Time
Hybrid
Salford, M50 2QH
Posted 9 hours ago
25500-36500 GBP / Year
Closes: 17 May 2026

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Job Requisition ID: 44150

Job Closing Date: 17/05/2026

Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH

Job Details

Job Band: B
Contract Type: x2 5 month attachments/fixed term contracts, full time
Department: Sport Production Library
Location: Salford (hybrid working)
Salary: £25,500 – £36,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The salary range reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Flexible working options are available. If you would like to be considered for flexible working arrangements, please indicate this in your application. Flexible working will be discussed at offer stage.

Purpose of the Role

The Sport Media Manager is responsible for managing and controlling access to the BBC Sport Media Collection across both live production environments and the Sport Digital Archive.

The role supports production teams by responding to content requests, prioritising workflows to meet broadcast deadlines, maintaining and enhancing digital media assets and associated metadata, and applying BBC policies relating to the retention and deletion of digital production media.

Why Join the Team

We are recruiting three fixed term Sport Media Managers to join the Sport Production Library in Salford, supporting BBC Sport.
The team of approximately 20 staff works across all BBC Sport output, including major sporting events and platforms such as Television, Radio, Live Streaming, Digital Short form content, and Sports News. Media curated within our Digital Media Asset Management systems is integral to content creation across the organisation.

This role forms part of the team responsible for managing media ingested into live production systems and retained in the Digital Media Production Archive, contributing to a collection of over 1.8 million hours of searchable sport media.

Key Responsibilities

• Support sport content production in a fast paced broadcast environment, including during periods of organisational and technological change.
• Respond to and prioritise media and research requests to meet production and broadcast deadlines.
• Curate, manage, and maintain digital media assets and metadata in line with BBC standards.
• Apply retention and deletion policies accurately and consistently across digital production media.
• Work effectively within a small specialist team while aligning activity with wider BBC Broadcast and Archive strategies.
• Promote best practice in digital media management, archiving, and production library workflows.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with users of live production systems and legacy collections.
• Maintain an awareness of sports rights constraints and their impact on content access, reuse, and distribution.

Skills and Experience

Essential
• Demonstrable experience working with a digital archive or within a media environment, including digital media or content management.
• Strong knowledge of sport and BBC Sport output, with an understanding of sports content types, genres, and production requirements and of handling production requests and research enquiries under pressure and to tight broadcast deadlines.
• A good working knowledge of databases and software used in managing information services, including Media Asset Management (MAM) and Production Asset Management (PAM) systems.
• Awareness of technical considerations such as media formats, aspect ratios, and audio standards.
• Experience using systems such as EVS IPDirector, Dira, Dalet Galaxy, and Adobe Premiere.

Desirable
• An understanding of sports rights and their implications for broadcasting.
• Experience providing access to file based media and interpreting metadata.
• Experience planning and prioritising workloads within a broadcast, production, or archive environment.

If you can bring some of these skills alongside transferable strengths, we encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may be required to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with the BBC’s Contracts of Employment policy. This enables appropriate support to be discussed and any potential risks to be assessed. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of an offer.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

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.

To apply for this job please visit careers.bbc.co.uk.