Job Introduction

• Are you passionate about leading and empowering others to remove barriers for people with disabilities and impairments and really impact the quality of their lives?
• Do you want to work for an organization that values the Importance of effective Change Leadership?
• Do you actively contribute to positive change that impacts how individuals, small work groups, departments, divisions, or the entire organization do their work?

If you answered yes to all of the above then do we have the role for you!

So we're working on renovating your BBC local and global digital products and services.

We're looking for a Lead Change Manager to lead the BBC Accessibility Team in UX&D on an 18 month fixed term contract (FTC)  to help ensure that accessibility is embedded in the BBC’s digital user experience.

Being inclusive and accessible is an integral part of the BBC’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and a key objective in our ambition to ensure that the BBC delivers ‘value for all’. The BBC Digital Accessibility Policy helps us to ensure the BBC’s digital products, services and digital environments are accessible to everyone by removing barriers and facilitating inclusion.

We want people who are as motivated by the same unique purpose as we are, and who have the skills we need to deliver against a really challenging, important agenda.

You'll lead the team to deliver their work, ensuring they enable our product group to embed accessibility into our culture and practice.

Role Responsibility

Hi! We’re the world-class Accessibility Digital Team, and we ensure and provide design to help our local and global users with disabilities use technology more easily.

We’ve got a great mandate; to make sure that all people can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with our brilliant programming, products and services and have the best user experience ever!

As our Lead Change Manager you’ll deliver a holistic Change Leadership Strategy and Plan including communication, learning, engagement and readiness plans.

You’ll serve as team coach and facilitator for supporting change leadership projects regarding complex business and implementation issues.

You’ll also be part of the vibrant UX&D community. We’re a department of more than 150 people across Salford, London, Glasgow and Cardiff, working in design, research, information architecture and delivery management.

•                       Ensure there is a clear direction and set of priorities with defined outcomes and metrics to track progress
•                       Clear stakeholder engagement approach and plan to ensure ‘readiness’ for the business to embed accessibility  
•                       Tracking change and impact, managing risks and escalating where necessary.
•                       Lead on prioritisation for the team’s workload and pipeline of needs coming through from the business
•                       Making sure all products have accessibility plans and teams are enabled to drive them
•                       Ensuring capacity and resourcing requirements are managed

The Ideal Candidate

• Substantial experience leading change on large and complex programmes/projects involving significant organisational or transformational change.
• You will have superb communication and engagement skills as you’ll be working with diverse professional and creative business areas across functions.

Package Description

Band: E
Contract type: 18 month FTC
Location: London Broadcast Centre

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.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here