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Senior Change and Project Manager - BBC Children in Need
Package Description
Job Reference:
20645
Band:
D Contract type:
Fixed Term Contract/Attachment till 31/08/25 Location:
Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. Salary:
£42,300 - £56,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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 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.
Job Introduction
BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be. We fund thousands of charities and projects in every corner of the UK, that support children and young people to feel and be safer, have improved mental health and wellbeing, form better, more positive relationships and be given more equal opportunities to flourish.
Part of the Change and Transformation team, this role will play a pivotal part in supporting Children in Need to deliver our five year strategy. You will be working on the exciting, high profile change and transformation activities that move us closer to our Charitable ambition. You will be in the thick of things, helping to develop strategic plans, supporting delivery and landing change. The role will work with teams from across the Charity, including working with the executive team. Bringing people together and stakeholder management are key parts of the role, as well as being able to effectively challenge and ensure all activity is aligned to our strategic priorities.
This is a six months fixed term role reporting into the Director of Change and Transformation.
Main Responsibilities
Support change and transformation projects and activities across the charity. This includes but is not limited to:
Coaching activity leads to have clear vision, objectives and KPIs Creating and managing project and change plans Ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are engaged Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies Running workshops to identify opportunities, solutions and processes
Reporting on the transformation portfolio Supporting strategic planning and decision making Building change culture and capability across the Charity Providing and curating opportunities for innovation and engagement with the strategy
Are you the right Candidate?
Strong project management and organisational skills, and an awareness of the project/programme context and discipline. Fully proficient at planning, risk and dependency management. Experience managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change on transformational change programmes. Sound knowledge of the principles and concepts that underpin change management and can advise on a good practice approach to business change. Able to cut through complexity to define problems, evaluate new concepts, identify recommendations and solutions. Excellent interpersonal and communication; experience in stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes; has credibility and impact with peers and leaders; able to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others.
Desired: Able to identify both the overt and covert culture of the organisation and its influence on the change. Works well under pressure, with complexity and ambiguity, and can flex to changes in business focus.
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. Read about them 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Package Description
Job Reference:
20645
Band:
D Contract type:
Fixed Term Contract/Attachment till 31/08/25 Location:
Salford - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working. Salary:
£42,300 - £56,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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 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.
Job Introduction
BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be. We fund thousands of charities and projects in every corner of the UK, that support children and young people to feel and be safer, have improved mental health and wellbeing, form better, more positive relationships and be given more equal opportunities to flourish.
Part of the Change and Transformation team, this role will play a pivotal part in supporting Children in Need to deliver our five year strategy. You will be working on the exciting, high profile change and transformation activities that move us closer to our Charitable ambition. You will be in the thick of things, helping to develop strategic plans, supporting delivery and landing change. The role will work with teams from across the Charity, including working with the executive team. Bringing people together and stakeholder management are key parts of the role, as well as being able to effectively challenge and ensure all activity is aligned to our strategic priorities.
This is a six months fixed term role reporting into the Director of Change and Transformation.
Main Responsibilities
Support change and transformation projects and activities across the charity. This includes but is not limited to:
Coaching activity leads to have clear vision, objectives and KPIs Creating and managing project and change plans Ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are engaged Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies Running workshops to identify opportunities, solutions and processes
Reporting on the transformation portfolio Supporting strategic planning and decision making Building change culture and capability across the Charity Providing and curating opportunities for innovation and engagement with the strategy
Are you the right Candidate?
Strong project management and organisational skills, and an awareness of the project/programme context and discipline. Fully proficient at planning, risk and dependency management. Experience managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change on transformational change programmes. Sound knowledge of the principles and concepts that underpin change management and can advise on a good practice approach to business change. Able to cut through complexity to define problems, evaluate new concepts, identify recommendations and solutions. Excellent interpersonal and communication; experience in stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes; has credibility and impact with peers and leaders; able to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others.
Desired: Able to identify both the overt and covert culture of the organisation and its influence on the change. Works well under pressure, with complexity and ambiguity, and can flex to changes in business focus.
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. Read about them 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
