Extended Workforce Specialist

Package Description

Job Reference: 15462

Band: D

Location: Birmingham, London, Salford, Cardiff, Glasgow, Bristol (Hybrid)

Contract: Continuing, Full time

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 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.

This role will be mapped to Resourcing Specialist

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 [email protected]. For any general queries, please contact: [email protected].

Job Introduction

The BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. With 95% of the UK using the BBC every week, we’re the highest reaching media provider in the UK, driven by the strength of our portfolio across TV, Radio and Online.

The Extended Workforce team is an integral part of People Services within the overall HR function, providing specialist advisory and support services across the BBC.

The team works closely with Production and Non-Production areas to ensure all UK freelance engagements are compliant with tax and employment legislation, whilst also providing an excellent service to the freelancers themselves.

Main Responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to lead on ensuring the BBC is compliant in relation to employment status, rights and benefits in relation to the Extended Workforce population, including managing escalations and appeals.

Within this role, you will:

• Maintain awareness of recent legal and policy developments across tax and employment law as relating to the Extended Workforce, and understand impacts to existing ways of working
• Develop and implement new processes and standards to documents and policy
• Work with divisions/business to understand specific training needs and develops targeted training as needed
• Manage quality measures across all aspects of the Extended Workforce lifecycle

Are you the right Candidate?

This role would suit someone with experience and awareness of legislative requirements relating to the contracting individuals internationally. Additionally, experience in introducing new processes to an organisation would be beneficial.

You will have:

• Awareness of tax legislation and employment law as relating to freelancers in the media industry
• Experience of contracting individuals (both worker and self-employed)
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to break down complex information so that it can be understood by non-subject experts
• Able to manage multiple and changing priorities to meet business needs
• Great attention to detail for compliance and data
• Able to demonstrate pro-active problem solving skills with experience of risk analysis and decision-making
• Proactive  and driven to establish, simplify and embed processes
• Ability to quickly build and manage internal and external relationships at all levels

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.