Business Advisor - Creative Diversity

BBC; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC Creative Diversity team in Glasgow is seeking a Business Advisor to coordinate multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, delivering on inclusion priorities across commissioning and production.

You will collaborate with Creative Diversity Leads and a team of advisors, ensuring projects are well planned, managed and delivered with meaningful impact. The role offers flexible working discussed at offer stage.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coordinating or managing projects to successful outcomes.
• Knowledge of the project lifecycle and delivery methodologies.
• Understanding of drivers of success and risk for projects.
• Microsoft Office skills and ability to present data to varied audiences.
• Familiarity with project management tools such as MS Project, Planner, Smartsheet or Asana.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Creative Diversity projects and initiatives to advance inclusion objectives.
• Deliver projects from short-term initiatives to longer-term priorities across commissioning and production.
• Coordinate stakeholders across BBC divisions and external organisations.
• Support planning, budgeting and forecasting activities where required.
• Identify risks and provide performance updates to stakeholders.
• Support evaluation of initiatives with documented outcomes and insights.
• Contribute to measuring impact and opportunities for future improvement.

Skills

Project coordination

PM lifecycle

Risk management

MS Office & data

PM tools (MS Project, Planner, Smarts​

Education

Project management certification (PRINCE2/Agile)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Planner

Smartsheet

Asana

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Creative Diversity
LOCATION: Glasgow
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £51,867 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As part of the BBC's new Creative Diversity model, a network of Business Advisors will deliver inclusion priorities across commissioning and production. You'll provide on-the-ground project coordination and project management expertise, working closely with the Creative Diversity Leads and a team of business advisors to coordinate multiple concurrent projects across a range of workstreams.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The BBC is transforming its Talent and Inclusion team to ensure we have the right structure, skills and expertise to deliver for audiences and meet the demands of a fast-moving media market.
This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you'll work across multiple teams and departments to coordinate complex projects that contribute to the BBC's Creative Diversity priorities. The role offers the opportunity to work with stakeholders across commissioning, production and business support functions, ensuring projects are effectively planned, managed and delivered to achieve meaningful impact.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Support the planning, coordination and delivery of Creative Diversity projects and initiatives that advance the BBC's inclusion and representation objectives both on and off screen.
• Support the delivery of projects ranging from short-term initiatives to longer-term strategic priorities, working across commissioning, production, talent, training, partnerships and audience-focused initiatives.
• Coordinating stakeholders across BBC divisions and external organisations.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, contributing to business planning, budget monitoring and forecasting activities where required.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, identifying and escalating risks and creating performance updates, reporting to stakeholders as required.
• Support the evaluation of Creative Diversity initiatives, ensuring outcomes, insights and recommendations are documented and shared.
• Contribute to measuring the impact of projects and identifying opportunities for future improvement.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience coordinating or managing projects or productions to successful outcomes.
• Working knowledge of the project lifecycle including a selection of appropriate methodologies and techniques for delivery.
• Understanding of the drivers of success and sources of risk for the project.
• Microsoft Office software skills and experience using data to make it meaningful for different audiences.
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Asana or similar platforms.

Desirable

• Experience supporting inclusion, diversity or audience-focused initiatives.
• Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, Agile, APM, MSP or equivalent).
• Demonstrable professional development with a recognised project management qualification or equal experience (e.g. PRINCE2, APMP, Agile certification).

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail]

Redeployment

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.