Band: C 
Contract type: Permanent 
Location: London or Salford 

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 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/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Job Introduction

Are you great at gathering, analysing and presenting information (using tools like Excel and Powerpoint) and working as part of a high-performing team?  Are you keen to use your skills on projects across the BBC, do you have a passion for helping teams to improve their processes? Do you have experience of continuous improvement and/or lean? 

If the answers to these questions are yes, we\'d love to hear from you!  You may not have done formal change projects before, but a lot of the skills we’re looking for are transferable. You’ll be excellent at data analysis, highly organised, a great team-player, and very eager to learn.  Come join our team and help to make a real difference.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to use these skills within the BBC Spark team, which is dedicated to helping staff at the BBC think differently about what they do, how they do it and change it for the better. Spark uses lean transformation tools and techniques to help teams deliver even better value for money for licence payers and meet new audience and digital challenges.  We’ll help you develop your current skills and develop towards UK industry-standard lean accreditation.

We are recruiting for a Projects and Change Analyst to join our team.  The role will be based in London or Salford but project location can vary which may mean some travel.

Main Responsibilities

You will be working on projects as part of a joint team with staff from the area undergoing the change (e.g. programme makers) and other Spark colleagues. You will be an ambassador for the department and a crucial part of your role will working with colleagues and stakeholders to accurately interpret and present data in interesting, innovative, visual ways. 

 

Following our Spark approach for projects, which is based on the Lean method, you will use different techniques to help develop solutions.  You will be working in Microsoft Office applications regularly and producing high quality work in PowerPoint and Excel to a variety of audiences.

This role will also give you experience for implementing some elements of the project working with other team members.  You will be organising and facilitating workshops, making sure all attendees are able to contribute constructively and making sure outputs are captured by the Spark team.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate will offer strong data analysis skills, be very competent in Excel and PowerPoint, and possess an understanding of organisational dynamics, operational change and projects.

Strong communication skills are essential and you will have the ability to use a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information. You will also be an excellent problem solver, offering the right balance of creativity and pragmatism, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and instigate positive change to achieve business goals.

Experience of lean and Spark would be an advantage.  All applicants should demonstrate a passion for the BBC.