Development Producer/Senior Development Producer - Factual Entertainment

BBC STUDIOS FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT is looking for a Development Producer/Senior Development Producer with a proven track record in developing distinctive factual entertainment ideas, from original conception to pitch, for a range of broadcasters and platforms.

We are looking for an original thinker who loves coming up with fresh ideas, who brings energy and enthusiasm to brainstorms and who can work up toplines into smart formats. You will be expected to produce compelling treatments and pitch materials, lead brainstorms, spot exciting new talent to work with, produce sizzles (either cutting yourself or working with an editor) and design decks. We want people who can think big and come up with noisy, ambitious formats with scale.

This development team focuses on winning commissions for linear broadcasters and the SVODs. Our remit is to create returnable, global Factual Entertainment brands – incorporating everything from Daytime to Features, Competition Formats, Popular Fcatual and Premium Reality. A thorough knowledge of the UK market is crucial and an understanding of the US market desirable.

You will be expected to come up with exciting new concepts that have the potential to be returnable, sellable and scalable and that will resonate with an audience both in the UK and internationally. You will also be able to think through formats and solve problems to make your and the team’s ideas as distinctive as possible. You will be passionate about talent and finding vehicles for both established and emerging names.

You will have a strong track record of coming up with imaginative and commissionable programme proposals. You will need to show you can write punchy, effective decks, and you will have highly developed team-working and communication skills with the ability to identify opportunities for collaborations.

You will have a minimum of 1 year’s experience working at a minimum of Development Producer level working specifically to develop Factual Entertainment ideas for linear television and streamers.

Proven success in devising and producing original non-scripted formats in the reality, competition, popular factual and bold formats space.

You will have a passion for developing new content across channels and platforms with the desire to build on the success of our established brands.

You will relish developing creative and innovative ideas, showing an awareness of new trends and talent within the television market.

Working across a slate of development ideas and managing time and resources, you will have excellent communication skills, writing fast turnaround punchy, effective pitching documents and producing taster tapes in order to aid successful commissions.

Experience of Keynote and Premiere is preferred.

Excellent people skills.

Production experience is desirable but not required.

Experience in handling confidential and/or controversial information with tact and sensitivity.

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Contract type: 6-Month FTC
Location: London

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