HR Business Partner - Projects, Transformation and Change

Package Description

Job ref: 23796

Band: E

Contract type: 1 x Full time twelve month Fixed term contract

Location:  Flexible UK location. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office with home working. There will also be regular travel to other BBC bases.

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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 Reasonable Adjustments.  For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR.

This role is advertised as part of our ** if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team.

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workface that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

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Job Introduction

Exciting role in the Corporate Functions area of the BBC, for an HRBP to lay the foundations for our change, transformation and project people plans. This is a role that spans across classic project management and change skills, as well as a technical HR specialist who can deliver practical and implementable people related activities. You’ll act as the interface between HR Business Partners, Business Leaders and Centres of Excellence to set the function up for fast paced delivery and success.

Main Responsibilities

Working closely with our divisional HRBP teams, this role will focus on activities and interventions including:

Project and Change Management

•    Develop and Execute Change Strategies – Formulate and Implement change management plans, ensuring they align with broader programme and roadmap activities.

•    Develop a calendar of core and change people activities to ensure well planned delivery across the year with sufficient notice for executing the change.

•    Ensure clear ownership of projects and change initiatives, ensuring that they are delivered on time.

•    Stakeholder Engagement – Work with HR Business Partners, Centres of Excellence and Business Leaders to secure commitment and support for the change.

•    Communication - Design and implement impactful communication, and engagement plans to ensure employees and managers remain informed, engaged, and aligned throughout the change journey.

•    Training & Development – Plan and deliver programmes to equip leaders/ employees with skills and knowledge for adapting to changes.

•    Change Leadership - Provide guidance to teams and stakeholders throughout the change journey.

•    Data and Benefits Management- Track and measure the success of change initiatives and ensure benefits are realised, using real data to evidence the impact.

•    Develop tailored interventions to support HRBP, management and employees in adopting new behaviours and mindsets.

HR Projects

•    Act as the HR lead on specific initiatives: these may range from data and team health, performance, career development, talent and succession and diversity, inclusion and belonging

•    Ensure changes are sustained and benefits are realised after implementation.

•    Support employees and teams as they adjust to new processes and systems.

•    Monitor the long-term impact of change initiatives, addressing lingering challenges.

•    Embed change into organisational culture and daily operations.

Are you the right candidate?

Essential

• Experience in change management, project, and or/programme management.
• Exposure to people related activities with solid understanding of the HR profession, likely as an HR Business Partner (open to different backgrounds)
• Effective with collating, reporting and interpreting data to accurately report on value and effectiveness of programmes.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Ability to build stakeholder relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in assessing the impact of change on people and organisations.

Desirable

• Experience in redundancy and restructuring preferred
• People & Behavioural Change Management
• Deep understanding of organisational structures and dynamics.
• Experience in developing and delivering training programs.
• Familiarity with change management methodologies/tools.
• Experience in redundancy and restructuring preferred
• Build resilience and adaptability in employees to navigate change effectively.

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. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours 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.

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.

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.