Business Coordinator - Belfast
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 14, 2026. BBC scores A on the Alion truth index.
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News NI
LOCATION: Belfast, Broadcasting
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £31,000 - £36,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. 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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Working in the News and Current Affairs Team, the primary objective of the Business Coordinator role is to provide comprehensive business support to managers and team leaders. The role will be responsible for a broad range of administrative tasks, including diary management, payment processing, co-ordinating training initiatives, and driving the optimisation of cross-team operational systems.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join a team at the heart of a busy newsroom, helping to support the people, processes and planning that enable journalism to happen every day. You'll work with colleagues across a range of areas, gain insight into how a modern newsroom operates, and have opportunities to build valuable skills and experience. It's a varied role where your contribution matters and where you can learn, grow and make an impact.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Take ownership of administrative and financial processes by proactively managing workloads, prioritising tasks, identifying and resolving issues, and ensuring work is completed accurately and within agreed timescales.
- Assist projects and working groups by providing general administration services, analytics reports and tracking outputs.
Support effective communication across the business by helping to cascade information and collaborating with divisional specialists to provide general policy guidance and advice.
- Monitor and report on mandatory training and support other people-related administrative activities as required.
Provide business support services, including diary assistance, travel logistics, coordination of meetings, and managing onboarding and offboarding activities for staff and freelancers.
- Carry out delegated business administrative tasks, including raising IT support requests and supporting risk management and data protection processes.
- Support financial and planning activities, including monitoring finance performance against budget, producing relevant management information, raising purchase orders, processing contributor payments and supporting freelancer bookings.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Organised, with ability to prioritise own workload effectively, coordinating activities and conflicting demands to ensure that tight deadlines are met.
- Demonstrate excellent communications skills and the ability to influence a range of stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong analytical skills, including experience of gathering, analysing and collating complex and confidential information, and producing management information (MI) reports.
- Ability to work with limited supervision, using initiative to resolve problems and adapt to continually changing business needs.
- Strong IT skills, including experience of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, and the ability to learn new systems.Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to manage high volumes of financial and administrative information accurately, identifying and resolving discrepancies while maintaining compliance with agreed processes and controls.
DESIRABLE:
- Experience of providing administrative support within a large or complex organisation,
- Business and finance skills, including the ability to prepare, manage and/or monitor budgets and resource plans.
- Working knowledge of SAP or similar business systems.
- Experience of working with colleagues across a wide range of roles and levels of seniority, including remote teams.
- Interest in news and current affairs, or experience within the media sector.
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.