Software Engineering Graduate Scheme Manager

4 weeks ago

Salford, Salford, United Kingdom BBC Group and Public Services Full time
Software Engineering Graduate Scheme Manager

Software Engineering

Permanent - Full Time

Salford, GB, M50 2QH

Job Closing Date: 19/03/2025

THE ROLE

Job number 21043
Job Band: D
Starting salary: £73,000 - £83,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract Type: Continuing
Location: Salford, Hybrid (one day per week in the office plus occasional travel to other offices)

Interview Process: Virtual interview for shortlisted candidates – approximately one hour of competency and values-based questions. Interviews will take place on 26 and 27 March 2025.

Introduction

The BBC Software Engineering Graduate Scheme was established in 2011 with just 4 trainees, but now typically recruits around 20 trainees per year across Glasgow, London and Salford. It is a two-year on-the-job training scheme comprising 4 x 6 month rotations, which you will coordinate to ensure that trainees gain as much experience as possible across the two years. The scheme has a 100% completion rate and former trainees typically stay longer and progress more quickly after the scheme. It attracts a diverse range of candidates, including Computer Science (or similar) graduates, coding bootcamp graduates and those who are self-taught. Trainees are required to have some demonstrable previous programming experience.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Have sole responsibility for the line management of up to 40 software engineering trainees, across 3 locations, supporting each trainee's entire early careers journey from recruitment to transitioning into a role.
  2. Manage and be accountable for the annual planning, attraction, shortlisting, assessment, onboarding and probation of new trainee cohorts, ensuring that all BBC Technology + Product Group diversity targets are either met or surpassed per each cohort.
  3. Continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme, collecting feedback from colleagues and stakeholders, using data and metrics to assess its impact and to drive continuous improvement.
  4. Collaborate with BBC Technology + Product Group colleagues to ensure that the trainee experience is positive and consistent, and that rotation teams are invested in and understand trainees' learning requirements.
  5. Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that trainees are retained within Technology + Product Group at the end of the scheme and that the scheme continues to meet the talent and skills requirements of the business.
  6. Establish and nurture relationships with a growing number of local training providers across three locations to promote the scheme and encourage students to view the BBC as a future place of work.
  7. Work with the BBC Academy's technical training team and external training providers to provide technical and additional relevant training for trainees which meets the objectives of BBC Product and Technology Group.
  8. Enable scheme trainees to successfully attain the required skills, knowledge and behaviours for a successful and long-term career in software engineering at the BBC.
Are you the right candidate?

Essential Skills and Experience:

  1. Previous experience of managing trainee programme/s in a software engineering environment.
  2. Experience of directly managing a large, diverse team, including goal setting and reviewing, and holding regular 1:1s with progress, issues, and concerns recorded and appropriately actioned.
  3. Experience of managing at-scale recruitment.
  4. Experience of working collaboratively with local training providers such as coding bootcamps, colleges, universities and external organisations supporting underrepresented groups in the software engineering industry.
  5. Experience of evaluating and implementing training programmes.
  6. Good listening skills with excellent communication.
  7. Attention to detail.
  8. Proactive and able to work well on your own initiative.
  9. Able to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
  10. Experience of managing a project end-to-end.
  11. Event management experience.
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. 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. 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.

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.

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