Production Coordinator

Production Coordinator

ITV News Channel

Full Time Permanent

Office Location: Jersey

Closing Date: 27th February 2023

This role entails…

Are you a highly organised office professional with great people and IT skills and a love of ITV News?

We have a rare opportunity for a Production Coordinator to join the ITV News Channel news team in Jersey on a permanent basis.

As our Production Coordinator, you will provide confidential administrative support to the Head of News, Operations Manager and management team to ensure the smooth running of our busy news and programmes operation.

You’ll be a key point of contact for the wider ITV management team, managing diaries, arranging meetings, drafting correspondence, organising events as well as judging urgent priorities with confidentiality, tact and diplomacy.

Our Production Coordinator is also at the heart of supporting our news journalists and production specialists booking travel, accommodation and facilities on a daily basis.

As the first point of contact for many of our visitors, you’ll have a welcoming manner and know how to get the best out of people. You’ll also manage our induction and our talent development programmes and assist in our recruitment process for both editorial and technical roles.

A site services function will be an important part of your responsibilities where you will coordinate routine maintenance and supplies at our digital broadcast centre in Jersey. You’ll also be trained as a super user of our business administration systems to help you manage budgets, invoices and orders.

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate the Minimum role criteria:

• Strong IT G Suite skills with the ability to write correspondence as well as create forms, surveys & presentations.
• Exceptional organisational skills and demonstrate the ability to multi-task and prioritise and delegate as appropriate.
• A self starter demonstrating the ability to use initiative and judgement to deal with sometimes complex questions and issues as they occur

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people and as a Disability Confident Leader if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee you’ll get to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

The Key role criteria is as follows:

• Can be trusted to be discreet with highly sensitive information.
• Ability to get the best out of people and to work as part of a successful multi-skilled team.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn new skills and adopt new ways of working.
• Confident, calm & friendly manner maintaining a positive attitude, whilst working under pressure to tight deadlines

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything... our email is talkingcareers@itv.com.

Closing Date for applications: 27th February 2023

The benefits of life at ITV..

Working at ITV will have a real impact on your career, on our viewers and our strategic ambitions. We’re a living wage employer - in fact we were the first UK broadcaster to sign up. We look after our people at every stage of their career and through different life events. We provide all employees with digital health services, wellbeing support, income protection cover and life assurance, as well as enhanced family leave and pay.

We help everyone save today and also for tomorrow, with brilliant deals on high street and online shopping, a savings plan with the opportunity to buy discounted ITV shares and our DC Pension Plan, which ITV will also contribute to.

Plus, you can choose from a range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, from buying up to six weeks of extra holiday a year, private healthcare or a health cash plan, to saving money on a bike, gym membership or a brand-new low-emission car.

We reach millions of people everyday, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We have various networks who celebrate and support our colleagues. We try to embed an inclusive mindset in everything we do.

• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.