BBC Hiring for Senior HR Business Partner at London Full Time

We have a fantastic opportunity to cover a Senior HR Business Partner on a 6 month attachment/fixed term basis. Working within our People and Organisational Development team, you will be partnering across News and Nations on some truly exciting projects.

BBC News is a division of c7000 employees, which includes Network News, World Service Languages, World Service English, BBC Monitoring and Media Action. The vision of BBC News is to be ‘distinctive, trusted, engaging everyone, every day’ and we are currently undertaking a modernisation programme across BBC News to reflect the digital landscape in which we operate so that we remain the most important and trusted news organisation in the world.

BBC Nations is one of the largest divisions within the BBC – delivering local, regional and nations services to millions of people each day across the UK on television, radio and mobile platforms. Nations operate from over 50 locations across all four UK nations, with major bases in Glasgow, Cardiff, Salford, Bristol, Birmingham, London and Belfast. We invest almost £450m on content each year and employ almost 5500 staff.

We commission a range of content in a wide variety of genres on television and radio: from local radio to the BBC Scotland channel, from regional news to Radio Foyle, from Angels of the North to Keeping Faith and Guilt. Our digital role is also vital for millions of daily users and we produce content across BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC iPlayer, BBC Bitesize and BBC Sounds.

Main Responsibilities

Leading on activities including:
Facilitation of the talent and succession road map for the Division

Pan-BBC review of attachments for career development

Supporting on embedding performance and development initiatives

Supporting work on the D & I agenda

Key point of contact for Divisional leadership teams on People and Organisational Development plans and progress

Collaborating closely with People and Organisational Development colleagues on activity relating to Culture and Values or Leadership Development

Are you the right candidate?

Ideally already operating at a Senior HRBP level

Experience of talent and succession, performance management, D&I

Extensive experience of operating in a business partner model, working with local managers to create positive business outcomes.

Able to take the initiative and be responsible for the decisions made.

Communicates, challenges and influences a variety of stakeholders effectively

Project management experience

Excellent collaborative approach, always thinking systemically and joining the dots

Experience in writing business papers and making presentations

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: 6 month attachment/fixed term

Location: Flexible

Please note: We encourage early applications as the vacancy may close earlier depending on response .

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.

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/