BBC Hiring for HR Specialist at London Full Time

This is a key HR Specialist role supporting the BBC Corporate Functions team. We aim to create a productive, engaging and performance driven culture for our people. The HR Specialist will work alongside the HR Business Partnering team to provide support with employee relations case management, supporting restructures, HR reporting, pay decisions and assurance and other areas of generalist HR work.

Main Responsibilities

Resource and talent planning – Demand for highly skilled and creative technology experts is high. This role will work closely with the HR Business Partners and Resourcing teams to support efficient and fair recruitment processes across the function

Pay and reward – Pay and reward equality is at the heart of the BBC. The HR Specialist will support pay decisions, pay cycles and pay assurance for the Corporate Functions

Restructuring – Supporting the HRBPs with local restructuring programmes including the issue of documentation and consultations.

Diversity and Inclusion – Working with the central and local teams to drive D&I initiatives, ensuring that we can attract the best talent from under-represented groups to work with us at the BBC.

Employee engagement – Working with HRBP and Directors to monitor survey results and help define the appropriate interventions to improve engagement.

Learning and development – Ensuring communication of central learning initiatives and some delivery of development interventions on a local scale.

Employee Relations – Work with the HRBPs and Senior HRBPs to manage complex ER cases ranging from flexible working to performance and conduct.Reporting – Ensure the cascade of monthly HR metrics and supporting with the bespoke reporting for projects

Are you the right candidate?

Generalist HR experience across the full range of people activity

Engaging and confident with the ability to deal with Director level stakeholders

Knowledge of current thinking in HR issues and trends and evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Communicates and adapts to work effectively with a variety of situations and stakeholders.. Is able to understand and appreciate different perspectives on an issue, present well-reasoned arguments and drive positive behavioural change.

Be a good ambassador for BBC values and behaviours.

Desirable

MCIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (Level 5) plus experience.

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: D

Contract type: 12 month fixed term

Location: Birmingham or London

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.