Job Introduction

The mission of  Children’s & Education is to champion and serve all children - tomorrow's authors, dancers, coders, nurses, engineers, inventors and citizens are our audiences of today.

Children’s & Education is unwavering in a commitment to inspire the next generation to be the most imaginative, most resilient and most curious they can be.

BBC Resourcing & Talent acts as a specialist team within our wider BBC HR function. We have a current opportunity for a Talent Manager to provide specialist recruitment support to BBC Children’s and Education.

The Children's and Education Talent Team work collaboratively with the BBC Children's and Education department. The Talent Team are responsible for attracting and recruiting fantastic and diverse talent into the BBC and ensuring an excellent candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. We are committed to sourcing the best industry talent to create our award-winning content for our young and diverse audience.

Role Responsibility

You will work closely with your colleagues in the Talent Team, our HR colleagues, and the Children’s and Education business unit to deliver an exemplary recruitment service to BBC Children’s and Education across teams such as Bitesize, Blue Peter, Newsround, CBBC and CBeebies games and websites, and productions like Saturday Mash Up, Jo Jo & Gran Gran, and Bedtime Stories.

As Talent Manager you will:

• Be responsible for day to day recruitment activity for their allocated departments, and create talent pools relevant to the production genre
• Create excellent relationships with stakeholders, and develop an in depth knowledge of production requirements, team structures and future talent needs
• Ensure smooth movement of staff between productions and projects in line with Recruitment and Attachment policies
• Contribute to the identification of internal and external talent and build this understanding into collaborative and proactive workforce planning with managers
• Consult with hiring managers to identify appropriate assessment methods for each role
• Support the delivery of internal and external talent events
• Identify and utilise networks and social media to attract quality and diverse talent

The Ideal Candidate

With experience of working within a recruitment environment, you will have a proven track record of recruiting and attracting talent and excellent communication and inter-personal skills.

You will have experience of working in fast paced recruitment environment where the need to work collaboratively with hiring managers has been vital. It will be really beneficial in this role if you are organised and have a track record of utilising data and systems such as SAP or an ATS to support the delivery of your work. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to attract fantastic and diverse candidates and work closely with managers to identify potential. You will ideally have worked in an in house recruitment team and have an appreciation of key employment law legislation.

As a Resourcing & Talent point of contact to the business, you will need to be a flexible and resilient communicator at all levels.

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Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: 3-6 Months FTC
Location: Salford or various BBC Studio locations

Working Pattern: Hybrid Working (Home plus two/three days per week in the office)

We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us on resourcing@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject. We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates

• Flexible/agile working - opportunities across the business. We’re happy to discuss a formal flexible working pattern. 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 the 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 certifications.
• Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (plus an additional day 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