BBC Hiring for Head of Talent Acquisition Job at London, England Full Time

Do you truly understand the potential impact of talent acquisition on organisational culture and success?

Would you like to strategically influence the myriad of hiring and promoting decisions for one of the world’s best known and impartial media organisations? Do you see the brilliance and potential in people when others can’t? Would you like to join an organisation at a time where you will play a critical role in helping make an even greater impact across the world, arguably when the world has never needed it more?

The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate, and entertain millions of people around the world. Our 22,000 employees are driven by our five inspiring public purposes, and you’ll need to be deeply inspired and motivated by them too.

We are on a journey of transformation. An enterprise-wide cultural and organisational evolution, that will unlock and amplify the potential in all our existing and future employees to deliver value for all audiences. And we need world-class talent to join and help us deliver this aspiration.

We find it hard to think of many other roles that can have such a significant impact on that aspiration than our Head of Talent Acquisition.

Main Responsibilities

As well as being accountable for developing and implementing the enterprise-wide Talent Acquisition vision and strategy, you’ll be joining at a time when the entire Talent Acquisition team itself is also undergoing transformation and evolving to help deliver on the BBC’s vision. So leading, motivating and inspiring this newly forming Talent Acquisition team to be best in class will be an inspiring and immediate challenge.

Additional high-level accountabilities include:

• Enabling a high-performance team culture by fostering an environment of diversity, inclusion, engagement, and collaboration both within the Talent Acquisition team and more broadly across the BBC.
• Setting and monitoring the performance of all functional areas and teams in Talent Acquisition against key performance indicators (KPIs) and outcomes, ensuring continuous improvement in ways of working while remaining in budget.
• Positioning the BBC as an employer of choice in the external market, enabling the BBC to attract the future skills and capabilities to deliver the BBC’s Strategic Priorities while also supporting the development and promotion of talent already in the organisation.
• Being a visible member of the People and Organisational Development senior management team, actively contributing to the wider People and Organisational Development strategy and goals as appropriate.
• Building relationships and forming alliances with external counterparts, communities of practice and stakeholders to keep informed of external trends and best practice, scanning for innovations and opportunities to form partnerships.
• Being an ambassador for the function, representing the BBC Talent Acquisition activity internally and externally.

For the full range of accountability and skills required you can read the full job description below. However, it is the challenges and aspirations listed above that should truly attract and motivate you; with the opportunity to build the talent acquisition team into not only the best in class but the envy of UK and international industry as a whole.

Are you the right candidate?

Have you delivered these objectives before, ideally on more than one occasion? Are you now ready for this challenge and have the skills, experience, and motivation to deliver? If you want to be a critical part of this challenge and it feels aligned with your career, leadership and development objectives, we’re looking forward to receiving your application.

Please apply for this opportunity via our hiring partner AnnaPurna here: https://www.annapurnarecruitment.com/annapurna-exec-application/

About the BBC

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 in the document attached below.

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

Package Description

Band: F
Contract type: Permanent
Location: UK – Various

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/