Project Director - New Broadcasting House, Northern Ireland
- Recruiter
- BBC
- Location
- Belfast
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 27 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 20 Aug 2018
- Sectors
- Business Opportunities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Introduction
We are seeking a Project Director to drive our transformational New Broadcasting House, Belfast (NBHB) project. This high-profile role will give you the opportunity to deliver a landmark project for the BBC. The NBHB project is a GBP77m, 6 year strategic initiative that will be led by BBCNI and delivered in partnership with BBC Workplace and BBC Design & Engineering Divisions, meaning a high degree of co-ordination and Stakeholder management will be essential. The project will create a technologically advanced broadcast centre to serve future generations, while also retaining our long heritage in Broadcasting House on Ormeau Avenue, Belfast.
The significant investment further highlights the BBC's commitment to the Nations & Regions and audiences in Northern Ireland and follows last year's announcement of increased investment in Northern Ireland content production. With audiences accessing content in rapidly changing ways, across numerous platforms and media, this investment will ensure that BBC Northern Ireland has the best infrastructure and technologies in place to meet the future needs of its audiences.
Role Responsibility
As Project Director you'll have day to day responsibility for the design, development and delivery of this transformation project, working with strategic partners to ensure it is set up for success and fully able to manage risk and deliver the outcomes and benefits required by BBCNI and all our stakeholders. The project combines elements of core technology refresh, enhancement and innovation as well as significant additions and improvements to the physical building infrastructure.
Critical to the successful delivery will be ownership of the broadcast continuity plan for the Broadcasting House and Blackstaff sites ensuring all existing output and services are maintained without disruption during the extended period of building works required by this project.
Are you the right candidate?
This is a large, complex and long running project. Therefore we are looking for an experienced leader with a strong track record of leading people and process change initiatives designed to develop and embed new ways of working. The ability to forge strong and sustainable working relationships with multiple Stakeholders across many levels will be essential, whilst ensuring there is a clear communication strategy in place.
About the BBC
The BBC positively encourages applications from all parts of the community and is committed to promoting equality of opportunity. It is important to BBC Northern Ireland that all employees come from and reflect the different communities across the UK. We value their understanding, experience and knowledge which enable us to communicate with our audiences.
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