Senior Responsible AI Manager

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, full time

DEPARTMENT: Data Governance – Product group

LOCATION: Flexible – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £60,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Please note: This role will be listed as a Senior Data Manager on our career path framework.
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 BBC is making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to being a service that is shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs whilst stimulating and delighting audiences around the world. To achieve this mission of being a Digital First BBC, we are building a data organisation which will lead cultural and organisational change. This includes lots of exciting work on AI.

We're actively exploring the opportunities and challenges of generative AI through a series of pilots, building on a long history of AI research and development at the BBC. And we're firmly committed to doing this in a responsible way that puts our values first, benefitting all audiences and helping us deliver our public service mission in new and exciting ways.

As the Director General, Tim Davie, said earlier this year in his speech at the Lowry Theatre in Salford:

Our vision is clear: create a growing, Reithian media organisation that offers exceptional value to its owners, the UK public, all based on building long term trust. A creative organisation delivering world class content and services underpinned by our values. At the cutting-edge of innovation, rapidly deploying AI for good. A global centre of excellence.

In the Responsible AI team, it's our job to help make that happen by building a culture where everyone at the BBC is empowered to use AI responsibly. We sit within the BBC's Product Group as part of the Data Governance function, and we work across the organisation, from News and Content to HR, Finance and Operations, to make sure everyone is equipped to use AI in a way which maximises the benefits while minimising the potential harms. It's all about ensuring that our use of AI is aligned with our public service values, our BBC AI Principles and compliant with our legal and regulatory obligations.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
At this exciting time we're looking for a Senior Responsible AI Manager to help us continue to operationalise our governance framework, particularly our risk assessment process, playing a crucial role in building out our AI Governance and Risk pillar within the team.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
The BBC's AI risk management process helps to turn our BBC AI Principles into practice. This helps make sure that development, procurement and use of AI by and for the BBC is aligned with our values, policies, and legal and regulatory obligations, and that risks are identified and managed effectively.

• You will take ownership of significant aspects of these processes, using your strong stakeholder management skills to work with business areas to assess AI risk and recommend mitigations in support of their proposed use cases, enabling decision-making through an innovation-friendly, risk-based approach.
• Be responsible for the day to day operation of the risk assessment process, including (but not limited to):
• Acting as first point of contact to internal stakeholders looking for responsible AI advice, triaging and escalating requests as needed
• Providing subject matter expertise to procurement and tool authorisation processes
• Coordinating risk input from partners in the compliance and risk management space (i.e. Data Protection, Information Security, BBC Legal, Editorial Policy, etc.)
• Conducting AI Impact Assessments and documenting the resulting risks and mitigations to support senior decision-making
• Monitoring higher risk AI use cases throughout their lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the BBC's Responsible AI Lead and Senior Responsible AI Managers (Governance & Risk) to iterate and operate the pan-BBC governance framework for AI, enhancing our AI risk assessment, reporting, and compliance practice and processes.
• Support ongoing horizon-scanning and awareness of relevant internal and external developments in AI, consulting with internal stakeholders and partners to ensure the process is user-friendly and embedded across divisions.

Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience carrying out AI Impact Assessments, or similar risk assessments (e.g. audits, risk reviews, maturity assessments, DPIAs or third party risk assessments)
• Experience managing a pipeline of work requests, triaging and prioritising items and escalating as needed
• Able to manage and deliver a service across complex projects, working in a structured manner to ensure delivery in a timely fashion to multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
• Able to manage stakeholders, including at senior levels, and to work with partners across the business.
• Able to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to contribute effectively in a cross functional team, and where necessary to guide and coach less experienced team-members.

Desired But Not Required

• Familiarity with external AI regulatory landscape, and understanding of responsible AI issues and concerns and how they might apply at the BBC
• Familiarity with the current AI use cases and toolsets across both the media industry and other industries, including their relative benefits and risks
• Good data and AI literacy, specifically the ability to understand and discuss key topics (technical AI or data science skills are a bonus but not necessary)
• Able to be an advocate and evangelist for a responsible approach to data and AI at the BBC
• Excited about personal development and learning

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

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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.