Package Description
Job Reference: 16767
Band: E
Base: London (London Broadcasting House)
Contract: Full Time Attachment/FTC Until 31st March 2025
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum
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.
Only internal staff are eligible to apply for the role on an attachment basis. You need to be on a continuing (permanent). You need to have worked for the BBC for more than one year and not have been on an attachment in the last 12 months. You will also need permission from your line manager.
Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a centralised project team operating at the heart of all complex transformation projects across the whole of the News division. The focus of this role is to lead a specific programme workstream within the News International Controls and Operating Model (ICOM) initiative.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
To lead a significant body of work, with underlying workstreams (or projects), within ICOM. The role is required to apply formal methodology – Managing Successful Programmes, leading to stakeholder expectations and the agreed business outcomes, within the constraints of the approved business case. Additionally, to apply the role’s expertise in complicated stakeholder management, provide thought leadership and lead in a matrixed management structure of project team members. The Lead Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of the whole of the proposed change, co-ordination of the programme's projects and management of their inter-dependencies.
Are you the right candidate?
We are looking for an experienced Programme/Project Manager and leader of significant business change to help lead business activity as part of a centralised project team. You will have demonstrable experience of leading, managing and successfully delivering large and complex business projects within a matrix structure, able to adapt and manage to tight deadlines and will be comfortable working independently. Change management and transformation experience is essential.
You will be working collaboratively with senior leaders to keep divisional plans on track and identify and develop solutions to obstacles, so that matters are dealt with in an efficient and timely way.
A highly organised individual with a formal project management qualification along with experience of providing professional project leadership using formal methodology, you will be a self-starter with the ability to respond quickly to high-priority deadlines and easily adapt to change to achieve goals.
As a strong and proactive problem solver, you’ll be able to offer the right balance of creativity and pragmatism, with the confidence and resilience to challenge assumption and negotiate with senior management to achieve business goals. As an effective, articulate communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, you’ll possess demonstrable experience of influencing senior decision makers and the ability to build and maintain effective and trusted relationships at all levels.
The successful candidate can demonstrate the BBC’s values in their approach, with a focus on a collaborative and inclusive approach to their work with teams and stakeholders across BBC News.
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.
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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.
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