Job Introduction

Working in HR at the BBC is challenging and highly rewarding. In such a dynamic environment we pride ourselves on being central to the success of the BBC’s mission to be the most creative organisation in the world. We are now looking for an HR Business Partner to support our Chief Operating Officer Group division (circa 4000 employees). 

The Divisional HR Business Partner is a generalist and strategic HR role, supported by the broader BBC HR team, including our centres of expertise and in-house shared service centre.  The successful candidate will have a seat at the leadership table, partnering with their client group to define and enable medium to longer term objectives.

Role Responsibility

Working with the Chief Operating Officer group, this is a fantastic opportunity to work with a dynamic and progressive client group partnering with one of our most dynamic divisions, providing expert HR knowledge and insight to support effective strategic and operational decision making.      

The successful candidate will also work alongside the Head of HR for the Chief Operating Group on division-wide priorities, influencing the development of business strategy and translating it into a divisional people plan that improves business performance and supports sensitive or high profile HR issues. 

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have strong experience of partnering with senior management teams in a generalist HR role, with an excellent track record for building strong professional relationships and credibility across all levels of the organisation. 

You will also have experience of applying best practice HR within a complex and changing business environment.  In addition, you will have experience of successfully leading a range of business enhancing projects in support of the wider HR strategy.  You also have strong resilience and are able to respond positively to change.

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

Package Description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent, Full time
Location: London, New Broadcasting House

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 â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ 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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

About the Company

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.

Closing Date03 October, 2022