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Lead Project Manager, News Portfolio (Job Ref: 18708)BBC
9 days ago
  • LevelSenior
  • ProfessionsProject Manager, Administrator, Account Manager
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Closing Date: 19-Dec-2024

THE ROLE
Job Introduction
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.  You might focus on one project or sit across a portfolio of change and transformation initiatives.
Main Responsibilities
To lead a major project, significant workstream of a programme or portfolio of projects to stakeholder expectations and the agreed business outcomes, within the constraints of the business cases. To apply the role’s expertise in complicated project management, provide thought leadership and line management of teams either within a large scale project or a pool of project managers.
Are you the right candidate?
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager and leader of business change to help lead activity as part of a centralised project team.  You will have demonstrable experience of leading, managing and successfully delivering large and complex projects within a matrix structure, to tight deadlines and will be comfortable working independently. Change management and transformation experience is essential.
You will be working collaboratively with senior leaders to keep divisional plans on track and identify and develop solutions to obstacles, so that matters are dealt with in an efficient and timely way.
A highly organised individual with experience of providing professional project leadership, you will be a self-starter with the ability to respond quickly to high-priority deadlines and easily adapt to change to achieve goals.
A strong problem solver, you’ll be able to offer the right balance of creativity and pragmatism, with the confidence and resilience to challenge assumption and negotiate with senior management to achieve business goals. As an effective, articulate communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, you’ll possess demonstrable experience of influencing senior decision makers and the ability to build and maintain effective and trusted relationships at all levels.
The successful candidate can demonstrate the BBC’s values in their approach, with a focus on a collaborative and inclusive approach to their work with teams and stakeholders across BBC News.
Package Description
Job Ref: 18708
Band: E
Salary: Up to £70k depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Base: London Broadcasting House, W1A 1AA
Contract: 6 month Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave.
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 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
About the BBC
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.
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 here.
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.

Skills Required

  • Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Communication Skills

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