Learning Design Specialist

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: BBC Academy

LOCATION: Birmingham, London, Salford (Hybrid)

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £43,700 - £51,000 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 the BBC Academy to create high quality learning in support of the Academy’s training delivery areas. As a Learning Design Specialist you’ll play a key role in the consultation, research, design and evaluation of blended learning solutions that promote continuous development and on-going learning to BBC staff.

Learning Design Specialists are accountable for the success of the learning intervention they are designing, with project control from beginning to end, liaising and collaborating with a number of internal and external stakeholders/third parties.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The BBC Academy mission is clear: To deliver accessible and meaningful learning solutions that enable the individual, the BBC and the wider creative economy to thrive. As a Learning Specialist you’ll be driven and inspired by this sense of purpose.

Collaboration and enterprise thinking is at the heart of our success. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive together.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Positiviely challenge, advise and support stakeholders with a view to creating user centred, simple yet effective and innovative learning experiences.
• Research, understand and represent the user and their needs ensuring any learning experience addresses those needs and is prototyped and fully tested.
• Project manage the learning design phases together with stakeholders ensuring that milestones are transparent, well communicated and met. Ensure communication throughout the project is clear and lead the establishment of regular project progress meetings with clear actions.
• Ensure that any proposed learning intervention meets BBC standards and guidelines and works within the BBC values and objectives. To regulary review, measure and update content as part of continuous improvement and management of learning material.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge of the principles of learning and the success factors that are fundamental to the design, delivery and continuous improvement of blended digital learning solutions.
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of how to effectively uncover objectives and outcomes within a project and delivering them against measurable KPIs.
• Able to demonstrate the effective management of stakeholders enabling clear, honest communication to ensure the successful delivery of a project.
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the effective management of projects.
• Able to demonstrate the principles of user centred design and how to effectively deliver user testing and research.
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• Clear knowledge and understanding of BBC editorial standards and policies.
• Can demonstrate the impact of solutions delivered based on measurements taken.
  
  

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

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.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

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.