Posted on April - 22 - 2010
10,000 chase 500 BBC jobs at Salford Quays
More than 10,000 people have applied for 500 new BBC jobs at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.
A jobs website launched earlier this year is getting an average of 200 applications everyday.
Among the jobs on offer are journalism, broadcasting, administration, marketing, and IT, and research.
Ken Lee, head of human resources for the BBC North, said: “We are going to have work opportunities for at least 500 people over the next two years.
“Before the end of this year we will be offering the first jobs to people.
”We guarantee that everyone who applies will be given our full consideration.
”We are determined to be fully reflective of our audience.
“For many people this will be their first foothold in broadcasting.”
A total of 428 people will be relocating from London to staff MediaCity – 46 per cent of those who were offered the chance to move.
Some 800 staff currently based at BBC Manchester on Oxford Road will also transfer to Salford.
And 40 staff have already relocated from London and are working at Oxford Road.
Relocate
The functions that will relocate to Salford, which goes live in 2011, include BBC Sport, BBC Radio 5 Live, Children’s BBC and BBC Learning.
Mr Lee added: “Content is king, but technology is key to delivering that content.”
MediaCity will eventually house 15,000 jobs but many will be as result of firms relocating.
At a local level Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company estimate that 3,250 extra jobs will be created.
The Oasis Academy – a high school specialising in media studies – is to be relocated from Weaste in Salford, to the Quays to forge links with the BBC and other organisations at MediaCity.
Salford’s then Labour MP, Hazel Blears, lobbied government that the renewal of the BBC charter in 2004 should be on condition that the move north went ahead.
She said a priority had to be that local people got the jobs and apprenticeships on offer.
One development which should provide jobs for local people is the opening of the upmarket supermarket chain Booths at MediaCity. It is likely to create 180 jobs and is set to open next year.
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