About Bbc Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

About The Team

The Localisation Team at BBC Studios plays a crucial role in adapting content for global audiences, ensuring that shows and media are accurately translated, dubbed, subtitled, and made accessible in multiple languages. They manage the end-to-end localisation process, working with external service providers to meet quality standards and deadlines. The team is responsible for coordinating media deliverables, performing quality checks, and maintaining schedules to ensure smooth and timely delivery of content

THE ROLE

As part of the Localisation Team, you will assist the sourcing and commissioning of language versions (dubbing, voice-over, subtitling, lectoring) and access services assets (closed captions and audio description) in multiple languages, ensuring the highest quality and standards of localisation are maintained and the assets delivered on time, within budget, catalogued and archived for re-purpose.

You will engage with localisation service providers to ensure both contractual and quality standards are met, and follow up with them on any complaints raised.

You will manage media deliveries across divisions, and will also be required to perform quality checks and simple asset conform tasks where required.

You will be responsible for handling purchase orders, processing invoices, managing related queries, and tracking actual costs, keeping accurate records in financial system and Excel.

Key Tasks

Coordination and Delivery of video proxies, audio wav files and scripts to the relevant vendors.
Monitoring and Upload of deliverables.
Setting schedules for localisation vendors according to deadlines and coordinate production workflow timelines with the languages houses.
Searching databases, sourcing & identifying existing assets
Performing quality checks and simple conform tasks on localised assets using in-house tools.
Liaising with internal stakeholders, keeping them up to date about language delivery schedule according to client’s needs and helping them locate existing assets.
Regularly updating schedules of language dubs and subtitling trackers and updating relevant databases for all types of versioning to ensure global visibility to our regional offices and internal customers.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

Key Criteria

Experience working in Localisation Operations. An understanding of the media supply chain specifically relating to language versions and access services, and the end to end creation process.
An ability to work to tight deadlines to coordinate large volume of material is essential.
Technical knowledge of all modern media file formats.
Able to establish and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external contacts including clients and suppliers.
Fluent English Speaker with a second language (highly preferable), or an interest in languages and localisation.

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

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 here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and we strongly encourage applications from disabled people . If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and declare that you are disabled, we will ensure to advance you to the next stage (minimum criteria above).

If you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

Package Description

Job Reference: 18810

Band: B

Salary: Up to £30,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Office Base is London (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working).

REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonableadjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

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