The UK’s public broadcaster is hiring an assistant commissioner focused on kids animation outside of its London homebase.

The role is a 12-month contract and will be based in Northern Ireland. Part of the BBC Children’s and Education division, the new assistant commissioner will report to Kate Morton, head of kids commissioning and acquisitions for zero- to six-year-olds. The roles were posted on BBC’s career page.

The Beeb also opened two new London-based positions for assistant commissioners who will have a focus on building out a pipeline of projects from deaf, disabled and neurodivergent talent. One of the roles will be in unscripted content, and the other in scripted. The public broadcaster is also hiring four people as factual content commissioner assistants.

The seven new roles are in addition to the 17 roles the BBC has opened as part of The BBC across the UK plan announced last year, to better reflect, represent and serve all parts of the country. As part of the plan, the BBC set out to commission 60% of its content from outside of London.

In August, commercial arm BBC Studios Kids & Family announced that it is looking to fill senior positions as part of a restructuring that consolidated its operations into “one team, one roster and one budget.”