BBC Hiring for Resourcing Advisor Wales and England Team Job at Cardiff, Wales Full Time

The BBC Resourcing and Talent team is embedded in the length and breadth of the BBC, providing the best people for our world class trusted and creative output. Based in Cardiff, Salford or Birmingham, with flexible hybrid working this role is to provide the best and most diverse talent to BBC Wales and BBC England.

Main Responsibilities

As a Resourcing Advisor, you will be responsible for the recruitment of roles across BBC Wales and BBC England in teams which could vary from business support roles, such as finance, projects and technology, through to broadcast specific professions, radio, journalism roles and orchestral positions amongst many others. You will also build relationships with the departments you work with, and take the time to understand their needs, challenges and successes.

You will make an impact by bringing your previous administration or co-ordination experience to the teams you work with, and taking the knowledge you have gained on those teams to create positive, transparent recruitment campaigns. We will also help you learn a range of assessment methods, to ensure the best and most diverse voices join BBC Wales, therefore it is essential you are able to bring your enthusiasm and creativity to this role.

Are you the right candidate?

As the right candidate, you will have experience of in house recruitment or administration/co-ordination in a confidential environment. You will have worked with customers or stakeholders and will have experience of providing them with good customer service and be able to manage expectations in a busy environment. You will also have good IT skills, including Microsoft packages, and some experience of other systems and databases.

To support this, you will be collaborative and enthusiastic about recruitment and the positive difference it can make to the experience of candidates, and the success of BBC Wales. Whilst training and support will be given to develop your recruitment assessment skills, you should have the creativity to think differently about recruitment beyond traditional interviewing.

Above all, a consideration of diversity and inclusion will be at the core of all of your professional practices, and you will maintain and enhance the BBC’s commitment to diversity in all that you do.

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: B

Contract Type: Fixed Term (Full-Time) until 25th March 2022

Location: Cardiff, Salford or Birmingham

For this role :

Welsh language skills are not necessary

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

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 25 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.