# Researcher

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: Bristol, GBR
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: Up to £38,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Bristol-Researcher%2C-Landmark-Series-NHU-BS1-6BX/1374955657/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The BBC Studios Natural History Unit is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic researcher to work on a spectacular landmark production. You will be part of a talented and collaborative production team creating a groundbreaking, sequence-based place-based landmark natural history series for a global audience.

**Key Responsibilities and Impact:** You will need to be a highly experienced, creative, adaptable, and organised team player with a keen eye for a good story and good technical understanding. Your responsibilities will include:

- Researching and setting up filming for both blue-chip natural history and presenter-led sequences

- Offering practical support to Production Management, Producers, and Assistant Producers throughout the series, including on location

- Taking an innovative, ambitious, and imaginative approach to discovering, developing, and pitching outstanding content ideas

**Requirements:**

- Experience working across multiple episodes on at least two sequence-based landmark natural history series

- A proven track record of setting up shoots and extensive experience on location where you have played a central role in capturing sequences for broadcast

- A comprehensive technical understanding of cameras and lenses and an interest in cutting-edge camera technologies and techniques to produce visually new stories blue-chip natural history sequences

- Knowledge of and good contacts with leading wildlife experts and organisations across the African continent

- Excellent communication skills and an ability to build relationships with a variety of people from different backgrounds

- Track record of finding and developing new emotionally engaging and achievable behavioural stories that suit the editorial brief

- Resilience and stamina to sustain performance when under pressure with excellent organisational and planning skills

**Desirable Criteria:**

- A demonstrable understanding of the importance of safe management of shoots

- Experience working with presenters and contributors on location and generating behind-the-scenes content to a high level

- A specialist knowledge and experience of working in challenging environments

- A willingness to spend long periods on location

- Experience with new media and digital content

- Experience of sourcing, logging archive, and understanding archive restrictions

**What We Offer:**

- 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

- Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture

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## Skills

### Required
- natural history filmmaking
- camera operation
- wildlife expertise
- communication skills
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- safe management of shoots
- presenter handling
- digital content creation
- archive sourcing

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