Training Advisor

Package Description

Job Reference: 18096

Band: B

Salary: £2- 30k depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type:
Fixed Term Contract/Attachment for 6 months.
Location:
Office Base is flexible. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.

There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.

Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

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Job Introduction

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands.

With 95% of the UK using the BBC every week, we're the highest reaching media provider in the UK, driven by the strength of our portfolio across TV, Radio and Online.

BBC Academy work across the organisation to support on our learning and development needs, and act very much as a learning hub for all employees irrespective of job function or title.

This role will specifically support the Generative AI initiative and sits within the Academy Operations team, who are responsible for ensuring that the training portfolio has the logistics and processes in place to run smoothly and efficiently.

The role of Training Advisor is to provide an excellent delivery service for the Academy users, coordinating key learning and development, and supporting operational effectiveness.

Main Responsibilities

You will take a leading role in the manual planning, implementation and maintenance of efficient admin systems and processes to ensure smooth running of a learning and development portfolio.

This includes managing the efficient scheduling and resourcing and working as part of a customer and delivery focused team.

• You will use key Academy business systems to ensure smooth running of training operations and the accurate recording of training data at all times.
• You will work closely and creatively with the Senior Training Advisor, Training Managers and Trainers and key stakeholders, including external suppliers and freelancers within a portfolio to ensure learning and development delivery is as efficient and effective as possible.
• You will support the Senior Training Advisor, Training Manager and Senior Training Managers in meeting objectives set for the Academy and providing reports and analysis to complete ad hoc projects, events and tasks as required.

Are you the right candidate?

You will be a good team player that has excellent communication skills that will be utilised across a range of stake-holders.

Ideally, you will have experience gained from a data analysis type role where attention to detail has played a key part of your role.

You will demonstrate:

• Experience of business systems for handling large amounts of manual data whilst creating and maintaining processes.
• Good analytical skills and the ability to research and analyse a problem and/or data to form practical solutions
• The ability to influence and negotiate and work well with your stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of business IT systems (Advanced Excel, all MS Suites, SAP, Teams etc) and an interest in the principles of training and a desire to develop your own skills
• Experience of manually setting up and management of events would be an advantage
• Knowledge of BBC policies, procedures and guidelines, and knowledge of BBC systems and processes including SuccessFactors and Smartbook would be an advantage

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC.

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles.

The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

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