Your role will include:

- Receive calls in the call centre during leading phone-in programmes for radio and TV
- Archiving
- Perform ad-hoc jobs such as welcoming and receiving guests in reception and guiding them to studios

Requirements:

- Arabic as a mother tongue or equivalent
- Good verbal communication skills in Arabic and English
- Ability to speak and understand major Arabic dialects
- Comfortable using computers
- Valid UK work permit

Duration:

- 3 hours a day, 3 days a week for an ongoing basis

In return:

- You will gain experience working with the BBC as an international media organisation
- It is a paid role and minimum hourly wage applies

If you are interested in taking part, please contact Emma Hill as soon as possible: 020 7765 0455 or emma.hill.02@bbc.co.uk

Background to BBC Arabic

BBC Arabic will re-launch on Tuesday 11 March 2008 as a multimedia operation.

A new TV service will be added to our radio and online operations.

TV will be initially broadcast for 12 hours a day, the TV channel is part of the BBC's integrated multi-media news service for the Arab world. It will draw on the BBC's extensive newsgathering operation, harnessing the BBC's resources of over 250 correspondents reporting from 72 bureaux around the globe - the biggest newsgathering team in the world.

BBC Arabic TV will be freely available to everyone on satellite or cable connection in the region, whether they are in North Africa, the Middle East or the Gulf.

BBC Arabic TV is distributed on the Arabsat, Eutelsat and Nilesat satellite systems.

The TV channel launch will be accompanied by a major re-launch of bbcarabic.com to include embedded video and a new media player.

BBC Arabic Service re-launches its phone-in programme Nuqtat Hiwar  - "Talking Point" as a tri-media offer. Nuqtat Hiwar is a pioneering live multi-media interactive debating forum which is already popular on radio and online - three days a week.