The Director, Creative Diversity is responsible for overseeing the overall on-air diversity and inclusion strategies across output; overseeing the planning, development, implementation of initiatives related to on-air talent portrayal, commissioning guidelines, diverse audience panels, monitoring and reporting that will further strengthen a culture of diversity and inclusion.

The role will serve as a brand ambassador and champion within the media industry and business, increasing awareness and influencing the broad creative diversity agenda. Representing the organisation on relevant external boards the Director, Creative Diversity will support the business on all aspects of on screen output and will provide expertise on all on air diversity matters using specialist knowledge for specific protected characteristic groups.

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External Influencer

Serve as BBC brand ambassador and champion within media industry, business community and government, increasing awareness and influencing the broad creative diversity agenda
Represent the BBC on relevant boards and organisations
Develop strong partnering and successful working relationships with industry related bodies and affinity groups
Be open and available to creative communities, emergent companies and talent ensuring creative diversity is fully inclusive, increasing awareness of issues for diverse talent
Work with the BBC Leadership and Communications Director to build a cohesive communications strategy which ensure that the BBC's commitments and actions are visible and understood by our audiences
Strategic Development & Change Agent

Working closely and collaboratively with Directors of Content, Studios, Radio & Education,News, Nations & Regions and their leadership teams to drive best practices
Develop strategies which support both on-air and production talent representation and portrayal across the BBC and its' partners to ensure the ambitions of the BBC are met
Drive the BBC commissioning guidelines agenda, monitor their effectiveness, ensure outcomes are delivered and refine as appropriate
Develop leading edge standards of measurement, beyond analytics and reporting, which demonstrate impact and value of the function
Champion an open culture, develop pioneering diversity and inclusion initiatives that support and develop new talent and content makers, working across all BBC output and platforms
Functional & Operational Leader

Align divisional management with on air objectives, ensure creative diversity is embedded and evidenced through business performance
Work closely with in-house BBC commissioning providing in-house expertise to support BBC drive for creative innovation
Work with the Customer Relationship function, review existing audience panel processes that are in place to ensure they fully capture direct audience feedback on BBC output and that all under-represented audience groups are represented
Act as the focal point for queries arising from Ofcom regarding the BBC's creative teams
Work with our industry partners to deliver DIAMOND, an industry-wide monitoring database system which will measure the diversity profile of the workforce on UK productions, on and off-air
Work in conjunction with the relevant in-house teams delivering KPIs and insights on progress against diversity targets and performance metrics; develop action plans to address areas of deficiency so that improvements can be made in a timely manner
Liaise closely with HR function specifically Centre of Excellence teams of Workforce Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership & Development, New Talent and Resourcing to co-create initiatives and programmes to enhance the advancement of creative talent across the BBC