The BBC’s International Services, as part of BBC News, are responsible for the BBC’s international-facing news activity and include the BBC World Service, BBC Monitoring and BBC Media Action.

Operating in over 40 languages, the World Service reaches a weekly global audience of 468 million people through international television, radio and digital output.

They also deliver further services to the BBC and our wider stakeholders.

These three strands all operate separately with different funding streams while working in close collaboration with colleagues across News and the wider BBC.

Role Responsibility

Reporting to the Senior HR Business Partner, this role will work in partnership with the wider international HR team, influencing the development of business strategy and translating it into a people plan that supports our business plans, improves business performance and supports wider HR strategy.  You will seek to identify current and future needs of the business offering a fresh perspective and approach to problem solving, and coming up with pragmatic solutions to operational needs.

Please see the attached Job Description for more information.

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have experience of partnering with senior management teams in an international generalist HR role with an excellent track record for building strong professional relationships and credibility across all levels of the organisation.  You will have experience of influencing and delivering change, and applying best practice HR within a complex business environment.  In addition, you will have experience of successfully leading a range of business enhancing projects in support of a wider HR strategy.

You will have oversight of People-related issues for your client areas, often working in collaboration with Specialist Teams. Specifically:

1) Reward. Retain oversight of all Reward issues for your area, input into divisional reward strategy and manage and deliver divisional reward plans.
2) Employee Relations. Retain oversight of all ER matters for their area, case management, escalations and managing negotiations with local union representation.
3) Information Consultation and Engagement. Lead and deliver employee engagement activity; Cascading communications guided by internal communications strategy & materials.
4) Recruitment. Own the client area People plan; Work with clients to understand strategic resource need, to define roles, recruitment needs and have oversight of senior/specialist hires.
5) Talent. Lead and deliver divisional talent initiatives; Retain oversight of and monitoring of performance management.
6) Organisation Design and change. Retain oversight of all aspects of people and organisational change within the client area; Deliver distinct pieces of OD / change.
7) Drive compliance within our international locations ensuring local legislation is adhered to in each country

Fluency in French, is essential.

Package Description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent 
Location: London or Senegal (West Africa)

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.