Project Manager - Technology

BBC Studios Distribution Limited; Eccles; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

35-hour work week

Pension scheme

Leave entitlement 25 days (+5)

Job summary

BBC Children in Need seeks a Senior Project Manager - Technology to deliver a broad Technology Strategy, leading a team of project managers and coordinating with senior technology and charity leadership to align plans with strategy.

You will manage resources, oversee delivery, ensure quality, and drive innovation to support fundraising, grantmaking, and operational goals, with accountable delivery across multiple initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery of multiple technology initiatives.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders to shape priorities.
• Hands-on involvement in solution design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the Technology Roadmap translating priorities into a portfolio of programmes and projects.
• Provide inclusive leadership to a multidisciplinary delivery team and maintain a high performing delivery culture.
• Govern end-to-end delivery governance, risk management, dependency management and controls alignment.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape priorities and ensure technology delivery supports fundraising, grantmaking, and operations.
• Plan and manage delivery resourcing including suppliers and contractors, with commercial oversight.
• Own delivery budgets and business cases, track benefits realisation post go-live.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks and blockers with clear portfolio reporting.

Skills

Team leadership

Programme management

Governance

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Portfolio reporting

Solution design

Job description

As Senior Project Manager - Technology for BBC Children in Need, you'll play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of a wide range of transformational projects as we deliver our Technology Strategy to support the charity's ambitious plans for the future. Leading a team of project managers you will work with the senior Technology Team and charity senior leadership to ensure our plans align to strategy and then manage resources, oversee delivery and ensure quality. This is your chance to influence strategy, drive innovation, and help set the charity up for a bright future.

Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Own and deliver the BBC Children in Need Technology Roadmap, translating organisational priorities into a clear, sequenced portfolio of programmes and projects that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Provide strong, inclusive leadership to a multidisciplinary delivery team; line manage performance, ensure wellbeing, build capability, and create a high performing, accountable delivery culture.
• Lead end to end delivery governance across the portfolio, ensuring appropriate decision making, assurance, risk management, dependency management, and alignment with organisational standards and controls.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across the organisation to shape priorities, manage expectations, resolve constraints, and ensure technology delivery supports fundraising, grantmaking, and operational goals.
• Plan and manage delivery resourcing across internal teams, contractors, and third party suppliers, including supplier performance, commercial oversight, and value for money decision making.
• Own delivery budgets and business cases, tracking costs, benefits, and outcomes, and ensuring benefits realisation beyond go live through effective change, adoption, and service transition.
• Actively identify and resolve delivery risks, technical challenges, and organisational blockers, providing clear, timely portfolio reporting on progress, issues, decisions, and outcomes. Proven experience leading delivery of multiple concurrent technology initiatives, with end to end accountability from roadmap definition through to live operation and benefits realisation.
• Strong people leadership capability, with experience building, motivating, and developing diverse teams while setting clear expectations, standards, and accountability.
• Demonstrable experience working with senior stakeholders to shape priorities, manage trade offs, and deliver outcomes in complex organisational environments.
• Broad, current technology knowledge with hands on involvement in solution design and delivery, enabling informed decision making and effective problem solving.
• Experience managing delivery governance, portfolio level risk, budgets, suppliers, and resourcing within a structured but pragmatic delivery framework.

Desirable

• Experience delivering technology in charity, public sector, or regulated environments.
• Experience across CRM, finance, fundraising, grant management, eCommerce, or data integration platforms.
• Experience delivering cloud based solutions and data platforms, including integration and reporting capabilities.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

We 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.

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.

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 pension scheme 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 or on an orchestra conditions contract. Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our 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.

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