Package Description
Job Reference: 14532
Band: C
Salary: £29,000 - £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Attachment/FTC until March 2025
Location: Office Base is Birmingham or Flexible - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.
Job Introduction
At the BBC, our Contingent Workforce team is at the heart of our People Services function. We play a crucial role in ensuring that freelance engagements within the UK adhere to tax and employment regulations. We’re now expanding our team to support our global operations and the engagement of our international extended workforce, and we’d love for you be part of this exciting transformation.
Main Responsibilities
As a member of our team, you’ll have a direct impact on our success. Your role will require you to:
- Assess Engagement Requests: Consistently evaluate international engagement requests using frameworks aligned with our compliance standards, guiding decision-making and ensuring adherence to policies.
- Manage Risk and Escalations: Be the go-to expert for complex queries, managing individual cases, and mitigating risks. Your attention to detail will maintain our high compliance standards.
- Confidential Audit Trails: You’ll maintain full, accurate audit trails, and treat all data with sensitivity and confidentiality.
- Commercial Awareness: Collaborate with peers and management to stay informed about employment law, tax legislation, and industry trends.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance existing practices and simplify processes, working closely with the wider team to drive positive change.
- Stakeholder Management: Support end-to-end international Contingent Workforce processes, including stakeholder engagement.
- Service Improvement: Collaborate with the wider business community to enhance our services. Your insights matter.
Are you the right Candidate?
We’re looking for someone with:
- Knowledge of regulatory and statutory requirements for freelancers
- Familiarity with employment and tax law
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- An interest in compliance and audit across diverse populations
- A keen eye for detail, and an ability to see the bigger picture
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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 here.
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.
