BBC Hiring for Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner – News Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

The BBC News Group incorporates Digital, Current Affairs, News Output, Editorial and Analysis, Newsgathering, and Production Operations teams – and the World Service Group. This includes Current Affairs – home of investigative journalism and analysis programmes across TV, radio and online and includes Panorama and Newsnight. News currently employs approximately 7,200 staff around the UK and the world, with a footprint in over 60 countries.

We have ambitious plans to modernise BBC News. We’ve learned from the way that BBC News has adapted to keep delivering for audiences during the pandemic. As we move forward, with changes forecast and our D&I plans announced, its important we have world-class, diverse talent to help deliver our strategy.

We have an opportunity for a Talent Acquisition Senior Business Partner to join us and help shape our future.

Main Responsibilities

The Broad Remit

The role will be responsible for influencing and shaping Talent Acquisition across BBC News and will be a crucial voice and subject matter expert on a variety of complex hiring topics. The role will own the relationship with senior leaders and is accountable for the approach to and delivery of Talent Acquisition for their client group. Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition and sitting on the TA leadership team, you will work with likeminded leaders and the wider TA/HR team to ensure BBC-wide opportunities are realized and value is created.

You will influence the transformation and future direction of talent acquisition at the BBC and play a critical role in ensuring the BBC has even greater impact across the UK. We are on a journey of organisational and TA transformation that will unlock and increase the potential of all our existing and future employees to deliver value for all audiences We need world-class TA talent to join and help us deliver this aspiration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively partnering and stakeholder managing across the organsiation to ensure a connected approach
• Ongoing review of the Talent Acquisition strategy and approach for the business area.
• Build trusted relationships with and act as the specialist point of contact for the business area on Talent Acquisition, offering guidance, advice and support.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition delivery teams to ensure the business area’s resourcing needs and well planned for and effectively delivered.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders, senior managers and hiring managers to educate and upskill them on their own accountabilities in the workforce planning, attraction and hiring process including working with new technologies.
• Provide in-depth forecasting of future capability requirements and demand for the Talent Acquisition delivery teams to support continuous improvement.
• Be ready to deputise for the Head of Talent Acquisition as required and supporting them with the development and succession planning for the wider Talent Acquisition network.
• Work with the wider TA team to position the BBC as an employer of choice in the external market, also supporting the development and promotion of talent already in the organisation.
• Collaborate across other HR Specialist Teams to deliver services and promote a culture of process ownership and continuous improvement.

Are you the right candidate?

You are a true talent acquisition leader with extensive experience of successfully shaping and delivering an end-to-end talent acquisition strategy with positive business results in large complex organisation(s), with multiple stakeholders (including matrix relationships). You will also ideally be someone who has worked in unionised environments.

Diversity and Inclusion is key to us, so we are looking for someone who embraces diversity and inclusion in culture and business needs.

You are always ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of the decisions made.

You build strong, trusted and inclusive relationships across talent acquisition, HR and the business at senior levels, managing multiple sometimes conflicting priorities and able to approach barriers from a problem-solving standpoint with the goal of creating “win-win” outcomes. You’ll be able to demonstrate an understanding of others, be able to energise and inspire even without direct authority and you’ll also have a one-BBC mindset, able to evolve and influence BBC-wide talent acquisition opportunities to deliver sustainable change beyond your immediate business area.

Finally, an understanding of journalism would be desirable, but not essential!

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

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.