People and Organisation Partner

ROLE: People & Organisation Partner

CONTRACT TYPE: 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

DEPARTMENT: Human Resources

LOCATION: North Sydney, Hybrid

WORKING RIGHTS: Candidates must have Australian full working rights

Working for BBC Studios, we are all part of a premium content and production company that inspires global audiences. We are proud to represent some of the world’s biggest, most trusted and loved content brands. In Australia and New Zealand, we bring the best of bold, British storytelling to our region through distributing content to broadcasters, our seven branded services on subscription platforms and our own local production arm, as well as other commercial partnerships such as live entertainment and licensing.

Our Values: Audiences. Creativity. Trust. Respect. Accountability. One BBC.

The Opportunity

BBC Studios ANZ has experienced significant growth and organisational evolution over recent years. As the business continues to develop, we are investing in additional people capability within our Sydney office to support leaders, strengthen organisational effectiveness and ensure our people practices continue to evolve alongside the business.

This newly created 12-month role will provide dedicated support to leaders across Production and the wider ANZ business, helping embed consistent ways of working, enhancing leadership capability, strengthening the employee experience and supporting the delivery of strategic people priorities. The role will partner across both freelance and staff populations.

Purpose of the Role

Reporting to the VP International HR (Singapore) and the Senior HR Business Partner supporting Global Content (London), this role provides dedicated on-the-ground organizational, culture and people capability support across the ANZ business, which includes a Production, Distribution, Sales and Corporate permanent and production freelance workforce.

The role will partner with leaders across a matrix organization to strengthen it’s, culture, leadership capability, employee experience and governance while supporting the continued evolution of the ANZ business. It is intentionally established as a dedicated culture focused resource, working with and complementing the existing HR partnering team.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Organisation Effectiveness

• Partner with leaders to anticipate organisational challenges and design practical solutions to improve organisational effectiveness and business performance.
• Support organisational design, workforce planning and capability planning activities aligned to business strategy
• Lead and deliver strategic people initiatives aligned to mulitple business priorities.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen organisational capability.
• Use workforce insights, people data and organisational metrics to identify trends, evaluate effectiveness and inform decision-making.

Leadership & Team Development

• Coach, support and challenge leaders through organisational change and growth,
• Build leadership capability through coaching, facilitation and targeted development initiatives.
• Promote collaborative, inclusive and accountable leadership.
• Support leaders to navigate complex people issues and achieve positive business outcomes.

Culture, Employee Experience & Wellbeing

• Support initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration and inclusion across the business. Identify opportunities to enhance employee well-being and psychological safety.
• Partner with leaders to foster healthy, high-performing teams.
• Support workplace wellbeing and psychologically healthy ways of working.

People Governance

• Promote consistent application of BBCS people practices, processes and applicable governance frameworks.
• Partner with leaders, HR, Legal and Finance to embed people initiatives and ensure alignment with wider BBCS people practices.
• Provide guidance current statutory employment requirementsProvide guidance on employee relations matters, organisational change and risk management.
• Provide advice on both employee and production freelance governance and award adherence

Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders across all lines of business, acting as an internal consultant on people and organisational matters.
• Identify emerging organisational themes and recommend practical solutions. Manage multiple conflicting stakeholder requests
• Translate business strategy into people priorities and actionable plans.
• Identify emerging organisational risks and opportunities and make recommendations to improve performance and culture.
• Lead or contribute to local and international HR projects and change initiatives.
• Bring external market insight and best practice into the business to continuously improve people outcomes.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to:

• Senior HR Business Partner – Global Content (London)

Key Stakeholders:

• ANZ Management Team and Heads of Business
• HR Centres of Excellence
• Business & Legal Affairs
• Finance
• Communications

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Proven HR Business Partner experience in a large, matrixed complex organisation (International parent company experience is an advantage).
• Preferred experience in a production or media business, or similar with large freelance cohorts and applicable modern awards
• Experience influencing senior leaders and delivering business-focused people solutions.
• Experience in organisational development, leadership coaching and change.
• Excellent employee relations and stakeholder management capability.
• Knowledge of Australian employment legislation, relevant modern awards and contemporary workplace practices.
• Strong influencing, facilitation and relationship-building skills.
• Commercial judgement and ability to work across matrix structures.
• Experience using people data and workforce insights to inform decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to balance employee, commercial and organisational considerations.
• Experience of working across fast paced creative industry

Success Measures

• Enhanced organisational capability and leadership effectiveness.
• Improved employee engagement and collaboration.
• Strong governance and consistent people practices.
• Successful delivery of strategic people initiatives.
• Sustainable capability embedded beyond the 12-month assignment.

Perks and Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• 2 days volunteer leave per year
• Annual Flu Vaccinations
• Annual Skin Checks
• Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing resources
• Access to Coaching programmes and numerous learning courses
• Complimentary BritBox Subscription

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.

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

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: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Reasonable adjustments

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: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

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