Agile Coach

BBC Group and Public Services; Salford, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Glasgow, Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BBC as an Agile Coach to enhance agile practices across a diverse digital product range. In this role, you will empower teams, promote innovation, and help improve delivery processes. Collaborate with passionate professionals in a supportive environment focused on personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 days annual leave plus options to buy more

Competitive salary package

Defined pension scheme

Health care and gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in agile coaching or relevant roles is essential.
• Ability to build and foster agile teams.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements to agile practices across digital product teams.
• Create and share agile-related data for decision-making.
• Design and facilitate workshops for team development.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Coaching

Collaboration

Facilitation

Change management

Job description

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BAND: E
DEPARTMENT: Agile Skills
SALARY: Up to £86,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time
LOCATION: Office Base is Salford, London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff - Hybrid

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.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We’re looking for an Agile Coach to join the BBC’s Enablement area within Product Group. In this role, you’ll drive improvements to ways of working, supporting agility and innovation across our diverse digital product portfolio. From iPlayer to News, Sounds to Bitesize, your work will help shape how we build and deliver products used by millions. You’ll coach individuals, teams, and leaders to embed agile values, foster collaboration, and enable continuous improvement—ensuring our teams are empowered, aligned, and delivering user-centred value at scale.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll join a passionate, supportive community of Agile and Lean specialists committed to making a real impact. We foster a culture of openness, learning, and collaboration—where your growth is prioritised and your voice matters. You’ll help shape the future of digital at the BBC, working on products that truly enhance people’s lives. With flexible working, a strong sense of purpose, and a focus on inclusion and well-being, this is a place where you can thrive both personally and professionally.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

You will act as a point of expertise in agile methodologies and frameworks and how they are best applied, building enthusiasm and knowledge.
In all your work you will role model, promote and champion agile and lean standards and practices within a department, across the BBC, and with external organisations.
Day to day you will be:
• Responsible for assessing agile maturity and understanding in-depth how agile practices are applied in both teams and the wider organisational system.
• Creating and improving existing data on agility and Product Delivery to drive transparency, continuous improvement and data driven decision-making.
• A motivating coach and change agent, translating principles into practices that work for everyone. You will empower teams and individuals to adopt new techniques to improve outcome focussed delivery.
• Designing and facilitating workshops for teams, departments and senior stakeholders to improving existing skills and capabilities.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.