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Lead Change Managers
Base: London Broadcasting House
Contract: 1 x 10 month & 1 x 9 month attachment/ftc
Band E: Salary up to GBP68,000 p.a. plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. (The expected salary range for these roles reflects internal benchmarking and eternal market insights)
Senior Change Managers
Base: London Broadcasting House
Contract: 1 x 12month & 2 x 9 month attachments/ftcs
Band D: Salary up to GBP52,000 p.a. plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. (The expected salary range for these roles reflects internal benchmarking and eternal market insights)
The Closing date for applications is on Friday 5th April 2024 at 23:59
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.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a centralised Project Team operating at the heart of all complex transformation projects across the whole of the News Division. We are seeking experienced Lead Change Managers& Senior Change Managers.
As part of your application, you'll be asked which roles you are interested in.
Main Responsibilities
Lead Change Managers work closely with the programme to ensure that there is a clear and compelling vision, with clearly defined benefits. You will engage with a range of stakeholders to understand change impacts and business readiness to adopt planned changes and realise benefits. You will be focused on helping the people affected by the project to transition smoothly by planning, managing and reinforcing change, leading on the strategic planning and implementation of change activities and resolving escalated issues.
You will be highly autonomous, organising and planning a demanding workload and sensitively managing conflicting priorities. You will sit within the Central Project team and be expected to support the Senior Change Managers within the team working closely with the Project Team's overall objectives around delivery.
The primary role for the Senior Change Managers are to engage with key stakeholders, ensuring the vision and benefits of the change is understood. They will work closely with the Project Team ensuring there is a clear understanding of what is changing, why and how the business is changing. The highly organised and self-motivated individuals will carry out change impact assessments gathering training requirements for both editorial and operational teams. They will help embed the change into the business and will support them in the transition into BAU.
Are you the right candidate?
Lead Change Managers will:
- have strong project management and organisational skills
- have a high awareness of the project and programme context and discipline.
- be fully competent at planning, risk management, and dependency-management.
- have experience of managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change on transformational change programmes
- have the ability to work well under pressure dealing with high levels of complexity, able to adapt and be flexible in response to changes in the business focus.
- have sound knowledge of the principles and concepts that underpin change management and can advise on a 'good practice approach' to business change.
- have substantial experience in stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes.
- be able to demonstrate credibility and impact with peers and leaders as well as being able to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others.
- a track record implementing change on at least two significant projects
- experience working on a digital transformation project
- knowledge and understanding of a range of change management tools and techniques
- experience of stakeholder management
- project management experience
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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