Celebrity Liaison Officer - BBC Children in Need

Job Introduction

BBC Children in Need believe every child and young person deserves the opportunity to thrive and be the best they can be.

This is an exciting time to join us as we set out to deliver our new five year ambition and strategy for children and young people.

The charity currently funds around 2,000 local charities and projects across the UK working with children and young people facing disadvantage across the UK. We are looking for a Celebrity Liaison Officer to join our team who has experience and knowledge of celebrity relations (ideally within a charity environment) and contacts within the entertainment industry.

Main Responsibilities

As a Celebrity Liaison Officer, you will

• Identify, recruit and manage celebrities and high profile individuals to support BBC Children in Need
• Engage a variety of talent in a series of awareness-raising initiatives and fundraising activities that will raise the profile of the charity on a year round basis, as well as its annual Appeal
• Cultivate key individuals as ‘spokespeople’ on behalf of the charity on key issues, and utilise their popularity to secure additional promotional opportunities for BBC Children in Need
• Build, develop and sustain relationships with a wide range of talent and their management teams
• Generally provide administrative support for the Celebrity Liaison function

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for someone with these skills and experience

• Experience of working with talent, ideally in a charity celebrity liaison team, artist management, or a consumer/celebrity PR environment
• Experience of working with celebrity-led corporate partnerships or brand endorsements
• Excellent understanding of the celebrity environment and up to date on news and changes within the industry
• A solid understanding of the media environment in order to drive PR for strategic initiatives/campaigns
• Ability to build and sustain relationships
• Strong influencing, negotiating and problem-solving skills
• Calm under pressure with the ability to give clear direction and briefings

About the BBC

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 in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: B
Contract type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: London (W12) or Salford (M50)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.