Creative Diversity Lead - Operations

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Creative Diversity
LOCATION: Any UK major BBC hub (Hybrid)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £80,933 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

The Creative Diversity Lead – Operations is a key role in the Creativity Diversity operating model, you’ll be a decisive leader with strong people management skills, managing Creative Diversity commitments, funding, resources, and compliance whilst embedding inclusive production principles across all genres and locations.

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. You’ll have the chance to lead a geographically distributed team, manage impactful investments, and ensure inclusion is embedded in every stage of production.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the day-to-day delivery of Creative Diversity priorities, managing a team of Business Advisors (Band D) across the UK.
• Monitor the implementation of the BBC’s Inclusive Production Principles, ensuring they are applied consistently and effectively across all productions across the UK.
• Lead the strategic management and allocation of Creative Diversity development funding to support underrepresented production talent, inclusion initiatives and funding access requirements, with responsibility for tracking spend and demonstrating the impact and reach of investment.
• Oversee the collection, validation and reporting of Creative Diversity data, including Diamond, 50:50, and internal Creative Diversity monitoring (e.g. £80m commitment and 25% production target), working closely with Content Planning, Data Analysis and Tech teams.
• Identify and deliver operational process improvements that strengthen commissioning and production efficiency.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Commissioning and Production to align operational policies, budgets, and timelines with creative diversity commitments.
• Work as part of the Creative Diversity senior leadership team, collaborating with Creative Diversity Leads to provide joined-up strategic direction.
• Collaborate with Workforce Diversity Leads as required to ensure alignment and impact across the BBC.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proven experience as a senior line manager with responsibility for performance management, development and wellbeing of direct reports with demonstrable experience managing geographically dispersed teams to deliver strategic objectives.
• Expertise in operational leadership, production compliance, funding oversight and creative diversity data monitoring
• An understanding of production workflows, commissioning and breadth of understanding across all protected characteristics and underrepresented groups.
• Strong knowledge of industry diversity monitoring standards such as Diamond and TV Access Project access funding protocols.
• Proven data literacy, able to interpret and apply insight to operational decision-making and present to senior leaders.
• Project management qualification and budget management experience at a senior level.

Disclaimer

This 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.

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