PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 18883
Band: E
Location: UK Flexible - with travel to BBC bases as required
Contract: Continuing, to start April 2025.
Salary: £55,000- £78,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London weighting may be applicable for this role.

WE’RE IN SEARCH OF AN EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUAL TO JOIN OUR PEOPLE EXPERIENCE TEAM.

You’ll have a specific focus on developing our culture by working with teams across the BBC to understand insights and trends in HR and ER cases. You’ll understand the root causes of these cases and design innovative solutions that create a great place to work. You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing strategies that prioritise colleague wellbeing, satisfaction, and engagement. Your efforts will enable colleagues at the BBC to do their best work for our audiences in a high-performing, supportive culture.
Your role will involve conducting research and collaborating with others to implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee journey. To succeed in the role you’ll need to have an understanding of employee relations and have a working knowledge of employment law.
We’re looking for someone who looks for the big picture, who understands how organisations work and how to build successful partnerships to create positive change. You’ll also need an understanding of organisational cultures, and a proven ability to influence positive change through others which will be important for this role.
If you are passionate about fostering a supportive and enriching work environment, we invite you to apply and play a pivotal role in shaping a vibrant people experience at the BBC.

ABOUT THE BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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. Read about them here
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.
Please note; If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Using your skills in people experience and employee relations, you’ll review our HR cases to understand the drivers and barriers to creating a great place to work.

• Working with divisional partnering teams and leaders, you’ll identify and develop solutions that transform the way we work; your solutions will be based on real insights and deliver meaningful and positive change
• You’ll be a champion for employee feedback
• You’ll be closely connected to the real lived experiences of colleagues at the BBC and elevate their voice to inform decision making
• Delivering creative, innovative solutions that set the BBC apart and contribute to the EVP
• Caring passionately about the people experience, putting colleagues at the heart of all that we do and acting with integrity and careYou’ll build effective relationships across the organisation and collaborate to bring about positive chang

THIS ROLE WILL BE MAPPED TO THE POSITION OF HR BUSINESS PARTNER.

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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Using your skills in people experience and employee relations, you’ll review our HR cases to understand the drivers and barriers to creating a great place to work.

• Working with divisional partnering teams and leaders, you’ll identify and develop solutions that transform the way we work; your solutions will be based on real insights and deliver meaningful and positive change
• You’ll be a champion for employee feedback
• You’ll be closely connected to the real lived experiences of colleagues at the BBC and elevate their voice to inform decision making
• Delivering creative, innovative solutions that set the BBC apart and contribute to the EVP

• Caring passionately about the people experience, putting colleagues at the heart of all that we do and acting with integrity and careYou’ll build effective relationships across the organisation and collaborate to bring about positive change