Head Of Hr

Package Description

Band: F+

Contract: Continuing

Salary: Up to £120,000

Location: London

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.

Job Introduction

This new role is accountable for supporting and implementation of the People Strategy and plan across BBC News. This role will drive operational excellence in delivering a strategic HR business partner service across Network News whilst enabling HR leadership service. You will own and lead on the delivery of the cultural initiatives across pan BBC News and with support of wider central HR functions.

The position is part of the HR Senior Leadership Team and is pivotal in ensuring HR delivers efficiently and effectively and is accessible to all.

Main Responsibilities

As an HR leader, you will be representing the function internally and externally, visibly role modelling our values and behaviours. Supporting the HR Director in the shaping and implementation of the People Strategy and plan, across BBC News. Drive operational excellence in delivering a Strategic HR business partner service across Network News, ensuring and enabling a positive HR leadership service.

Working alongside the Senior HR Business Partners, this role will act as a sounding board for complex reputational impacting issues and will challenge the SHRBPs to ensure the overall News strategy and culture changes are delivered.

You’ll be the global lead on developing a ‘digital first’ culture for the News Division, working closely with Head of HR International as well as partnering with Central HR functions, Performance & Development Team, People Experience Team, Diversity & Inclusion and Leadership development to ensure that BBC News builds a confident, creative and inclusive culture.

You’ll ensure our policies, procedures and processes are fit for purpose whilst proactively leading and continually improving the service delivery across the BBC, with the aim of delighting employees through the services offered. The successful applicant will play a lead role in the success of the HR Operating Model ensuring integration across HR to deliver a high quality, valued HR service that helps to develop management capability and the desired organisational culture in line with our strategy.

By leading the team performance, you will ensure our people are developed, motivated and available to deliver all services that in turn add value to the BBC. You will deliver consistently to an agreed service level agreements/Key Performance Indicators and Looking to continually improve HR processes, controls and procedures implementing robust compliance and governance in place.

Are You The Right Candidate

Track record of delivering strategic initiatives that enhance business performance in a global environment, whilst balancing urgent operational requirements.

Adept at managing numerous, diverse senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities.

Drive operational excellence in delivering a strategic HR business partner service across Network News, ensuring and enabling a positive HR leadership service.

Experience in leading complex high profile and sensitive employee relations issues and considering reputational impact in all related decision making'

Proven experience in leading strategic cultural change to build a diverse and inclusive culture

Lead strategic cultural initiatives to build capability at senior leadership level

Exceptional communicator: an ability to influence and persuade at Executive Level both written and verbally

Confident using data and insight to create leading edge, innovative tools/solutions

Experience of leading and managing HR teams in complex global organisations

About The BBC

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 below document:

https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf

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 visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/