Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Consulting & Innovation

BBC; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC in London/Salford/other UK cities is seeking a Senior Skills & Capability Partner to lead enterprise-wide capability development. The role focuses on translating strategy into practical learning, embedding culture change and new ways of working that drive impact across the organisation.

You will shape capability strategy, drive transformation roadmaps, and lead with senior stakeholders to deliver scalable learning, capability and culture initiatives that support BBC's future ambitions.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinking and judgement across complex environments.
• Systems thinking—linking skills, culture, data and performance.
• Adaptive leadership in ambiguity and change.
• Experience transforming people, capability, learning or change-focused functions.
• Deep understanding of building capability and adaptability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives embedding learning and culture into leadership practice.
• Shape a business-led view of required skills and capabilities to deliver strategy.
• Embed skills, learning and culture into major transformation activities.
• Shape and evolve the capability strategy, roadmap and data foundations.
• Provide leadership that drives accountability, collaboration and high performance.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Systems thinking

Adaptive leadership

Transforming people function

Capability building

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: F

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Academy

LOCATION: London, Salford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow or Edinburgh - Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £120,000 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. 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

The Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Consulting & Innovation plays a key leadership role in shaping how the organisation builds the skills and capability it needs for the future. As part of the Skills & Capability Leadership Team, the role helps drive enterprise-wide change while continuing to evolve how the function delivers impact.

This role is about turning ambition into action, translating strategy and transformation priorities into practical approaches that improve how skills, learning and capability are designed, delivered and embedded. The role combines strategic thinking with hands‑on leadership, supporting culture change and introducing new ways of working that genuinely work for the organisation and its people.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The Skills & Capability team is helping to shape the future of our organisation and the wider industry. With an ambitious transformation agenda and a commitment to modern, innovative ways of building skills and supporting learning, we're looking for people who are curious, collaborative and driven by results. If you're excited by change, motivated by making a meaningful impact and keen to help build capability at scale, this is a great time to join us.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Lead initiatives that embed learning, experimentation and reflection into everyday work and leadership practice, supporting a culture that continues to adapt and improve.
• Shape a clear, business‑led view of the skills and capabilities the organisation needs to deliver its strategy, respond to change and evolve its operating models.
• Ensure skills, learning and cultural change are embedded into major transformation activity, operating model change and performance priorities, acting as a senior adviser and change leader on capability and culture.
• Shape and evolve the Skills & Capability strategy, transformation roadmap and data foundations, using insight to prioritise investment, design interventions and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop the Skills & Capability narrative, shape how success is measured and provide leadership that creates a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strategic thinking and judgement – shape direction in complex, changing environments and make sound trade‑offs
• Systems thinking – able to connect skills, capability, culture, data and performance into a coherent, joined‑up approach
• Adaptive leadership – comfortable working with ambiguity, testing new approaches and evolving direction as learning emerges
• Transforming or modernising a people, capability, learning or change‑focused function, including op models and ways of working.
• Deep understanding of how organisations build capability, skills and adaptability at scale.

Desired But Not Required

• Experience leading enterprise skills, capability, learning or transformation initiatives, with demonstrable impact on organisational performance and culture.
• Experience shaping strategy with senior leaders, embedding skills, learning or behaviour change into major transformation programmes and operating model change.
• Strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, transformation leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior stakeholders across complex environments.
• Experience using insight, evidence and data to guide priorities, measure impact, support decision‑making and drive continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of organisational capability, workforce transformation, learning ecosystems, agile and iterative change approaches, and emerging trends shaping future skills and organisational capability.

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.

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.