Rights Coordinator

BBC Studios Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A global media company is seeking a Rights Coordinator for a 12-month fixed-term contract in London. This role involves managing rights data, supporting distribution in acquiring and creating content, and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders. Candidates should have strong administrative and customer service skills, experience with rights management systems, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The position offers a salary range of £26,000 - £28,000 plus an allowance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

26 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Defined pension scheme

Caring and parenting support

Life assurance and accident benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in an administrative role, working in a team.
• Strong customer-focused approach.
• Skills in data management and handling large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and manage rights data accurately.
• Provide rights clearance cost estimation for sales teams.
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Administrative experience

Customer service

Data management

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Job description

Overview

JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month Fixed Term, Full-time
LOCATION: London - TVC
DEPARTMENT: Rights Management
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £26,000 - £28,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. The Rights Coordinator role supports BBC Studios Distribution in acquiring, creating, and distributing content to maximise audience value and commercial return within a digital, global, and commercial environment. The Rights Management Team delivers high quality rights and restrictions data administration, and provides effective business support and coordination by using systems and processes efficiently and building strong, collaborative working relationships. The Rights Coordinator role involves the accurate, consistent, and timely interpretation and management of acquisition and restriction data on the BBC Studios rights management system, ensuring full compliance with business requirements.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The Rights Management team sits within the Global Operations Content & Rights Acquistions department. The team is responsible for management of acquisition, distribution and contributor rights and restrictions data in the BBC Studios Distribution rights management database. The Rights Management team interacts with a number of stakeholders within the C&RA department and the wider business, servicing rights and cost queries from Sales, investigating issues with rights and restrictions, producing bespoke rights reports and working on data enhancement and process improvement projects.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Interpret rights and restrictions information from distribution agreements, associated documents and other BBC Studios systems, and enter data into the BBC Studios rights management system. Ensure the database accurately reflects rights positions and supports end-to-end content management processes.
• Monitor and update rights information as required.
• Provide a contributor rights clearance cost estimation service for Content Sales teams using Availability Reports run via the BBC Studios rights management system.
• Provide ad-hoc rights availability information in the form of written communication, face-to-face meetings and bespoke reporting for individual requests, events and special projects.
• Proactively manage the BBC Studios portfolio of rights by identifying contributor rights expiries and other restrictions impacting exploitation; resolve data conflicts; produce reports and support information for the Rights Executive to distribute to impacted business areas.
• With the Rights Executive, build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders in the business to ensure rights data is best in class and supports content management to prevent BBC Studios commercial activity resulting in legal or reputational harm.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Demonstrable experience of working in an administrative role, particularly in a team focused on shared tasks and common goals.
• Proven customer service experience with a strong customer focused approach.
• Data management skills, including experience with content/rights management systems, metadata management and large data sets.
• Basic/intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Excel or similar applications, plus familiarity with Microsoft Outlook, Word and Teams.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience of working in a media environment and/or knowledge of the current media landscape.
• Experience of working with contractual documents and legal language, particularly relating to acquisition, distribution and contributor rights.
• An understanding of BBC Studios’ content acquisition and distribution process.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about BBC Studios

Life at BBC Studios

• A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets here.
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.