BBC
Head of Planning and Delivery - Salford
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time.
DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need – Planning & Delivery
LOCATION: Salford – Agile
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £51,600 – £75,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
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
Join BBC Children in Need as Head of Planning and Delivery and play a key role in making sure the organisation delivers on its ambitions. Working closely with the COO and Executive Team, you'll help turn strategy into action by ensuring priorities are clear, realistic, and well-coordinated across the charity. You'll provide oversight of major programmes and plans, helping teams stay focused, remove obstacles, and deliver meaningful outcomes for children and young people across the UK.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You'll be joining a passionate and purpose-driven organisation committed to improving the lives of children and young people across the UK. This role offers the chance to work at the heart of the charity, bringing people together to achieve shared goals and making a visible difference to how the organisation operates. You'll have the opportunity to influence senior decision-making, shape organisational effectiveness, and help create the conditions for long-term success.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Lead the planning and delivery function, ensuring organisational priorities are translated into clear, coordinated, and achievable plans.
- Own and maintain the organisational delivery roadmap, aligning programmes, projects, and resources to strategic objectives.
- Provide oversight of delivery performance, reporting progress, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to the Executive Team.
- Drive prioritisation and organisational alignment, resolving competing demands, and ensuring effective use of capacity and resources.
- Establish and embed robust programme, project, and governance frameworks that improve accountability and delivery discipline.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that remove barriers, streamline ways of working, and increase organisational effectiveness.
- Coordinate business planning processes to align strategy, financial planning, workforce capacity, and delivery commitments.
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Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven experience of a PMO, portfolio, programme delivery, or planning function.
- Demonstrable success managing complex delivery across multiple teams, programmes, and stakeholders.
- Understanding of reporting and performance tracking.
- Experience translating strategic priorities into coherent plans, delivery roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with confidence operating with senior leaders.
Desired But Not Required
- Experience working within the charity, public sector, or a purpose-led organisation.
- A recognised programme or project management qualification (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, Agile, PMP).
- Experience leading organisational transformation or business improvement initiatives.
- Knowledge of resource planning, organisational capacity management, and workforce planning.
- Experience developing and leading high-performing project, programme, or PMO teams.
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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.
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
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
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.
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