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Closing Date: 28-Jun-2024

The BBC has engaged an executive search firm, Egon Zehnder, to manage the selection process for this role. Please be aware that your application will be managed by Egon Zehnder, who will have access to your CV and personal details for the purpose of this vacancy only.
Should you want any further information about the role, or to speak with someone, please contact Andrea Berlin of Egon Zehnder, at the following email address: BBC@egonzehnder.com
Job Introduction
Are you a dynamic, visionary HR leader with a passion for shaping the future of a diverse and inclusive workforce? The BBC is seeking a forward thinking and dynamic Chief Talent & Inclusion Officer to lead the charge in creating strategies to attract, develop and retain talent, and drive meaningful change in representation and talent development across its global media reach.
In this newly created role, bringing together and elevating Talent and Inclusion at the BBC, you will lead a team responsible for creating world-class leadership frameworks, development and training programs, and talent retention strategies all aligned with BBC values. This leader will be responsible for shaping iconic and forward-thinking talent programmes across the talent lifecycle, including the BBC Academy and flagship development programmes such as Hot Shoes.
Join us in providing strategic direction and delivering high performance amongst our talented workforce, whilst helping evolve the BBC’s strong culture of talent innovation and inclusivity, where every individual's unique strengths are celebrated.
Main Responsibilities
Our Chief Talent & Inclusion Officer is responsible for shaping the future of the BBC’s workforce. This role leads a team responsible for creating the conditions for BBC content and journalism to thrive by providing world class development and training, leadership and talent frameworks aligned with the BBC Values, ensuring we enable everyone to have an exceptional career with us.
Key responsibilities will include:
Develop and implement an industry leading integrated talent and inclusion strategy aligned with the BBC's overall mission and objectives.
Champion a culture of inclusion, belonging, and diversity throughout the organisation.
Drive our Creative and Workforce Diversity ambitions.
Own and drive a world class end-to-end talent management and D&I agenda spanning talent acquisition, talent management, workforce planning, leadership development, learning, and the talent and D&I programmes underpinning these.
Work closely with the executive team, HR leadership team, and other key stakeholders to define and activate a company-wide talent management and D&I strategy to accelerate realisation of BBC and HR strategies.
Collaborate and coach executive leadership to integrate diversity and inclusion initiatives into organisational priorities.
Build strong relationships with executive leadership to shape strategic talent and workforce resourcing plans.
Collaborate with internal departments, external organisations, and industry partners to share best practices and evidence thought leadership across the talent and inclusion agenda.
Act as the BBC’s most senior spokesperson in industry or external forums on Talent and Inclusion, influencing meaningful and positive change across the sector and wider industry.
Inspire and lead a team of senior specialists and professionals to deliver the talent and inclusion strategy across the BBC.
Are You The Right Candidate?
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in diverse stakeholder management and be an inspiring communicator, with exceptional commercial acumen, and the emotional intelligence to operate successfully within a politically sensitive environment. In particular, they will evidence the following key skills and experience:
Deep knowledge and insight in areas of specialism including current trends and future developments and their contribution to business success.
Adept at managing numerous, senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities.
An inspiring communicator, required to influence beliefs and opinions of stakeholders and teams with emotional intelligence, empathy and understanding, and able to establish effective and collaborative relations across BBC departments, and external agencies/stakeholders where required.
Extensive experience in managing significant budgets and understanding key financial drivers.
Ability and resilience to operate in a politically sensitive environment open to public scrutiny.
About The BBC
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 pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
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/