Agile Coach
BBC
Date: 1 day ago
City: Salford, England
Contract type: Full time
JOB DETAILS
BAND: E
DEPARTMENT: Agile Skills
SALARY: Up to £86,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time
LOCATION: Office Base is Salford, London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff - Hybrid
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
We’re looking for an Agile Coach to join the BBC’s Enablement area within Product Group. In this role, you’ll drive improvements to ways of working, supporting agility and innovation across our diverse digital product portfolio. From iPlayer to News, Sounds to Bitesize, your work will help shape how we build and deliver products used by millions. You’ll coach individuals, teams, and leaders to embed agile values, foster collaboration, and enable continuous improvement—ensuring our teams are empowered, aligned, and delivering user-centred value at scale.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You’ll join a passionate, supportive community of Agile and Lean specialists committed to making a real impact. We foster a culture of openness, learning, and collaboration—where your growth is prioritised and your voice matters. You’ll help shape the future of digital at the BBC, working on products that truly enhance people’s lives. With flexible working, a strong sense of purpose, and a focus on inclusion and well-being, this is a place where you can thrive both personally and professionally.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
You will act as a point of expertise in agile methodologies and frameworks and how they are best applied, building enthusiasm and knowledge.
In all your work you will role model, promote and champion agile and lean standards and practices within a department, across the BBC, and with external organisations.
Day To Day You Will Be
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.
BAND: E
DEPARTMENT: Agile Skills
SALARY: Up to £86,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time
LOCATION: Office Base is Salford, London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff - Hybrid
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
We’re looking for an Agile Coach to join the BBC’s Enablement area within Product Group. In this role, you’ll drive improvements to ways of working, supporting agility and innovation across our diverse digital product portfolio. From iPlayer to News, Sounds to Bitesize, your work will help shape how we build and deliver products used by millions. You’ll coach individuals, teams, and leaders to embed agile values, foster collaboration, and enable continuous improvement—ensuring our teams are empowered, aligned, and delivering user-centred value at scale.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You’ll join a passionate, supportive community of Agile and Lean specialists committed to making a real impact. We foster a culture of openness, learning, and collaboration—where your growth is prioritised and your voice matters. You’ll help shape the future of digital at the BBC, working on products that truly enhance people’s lives. With flexible working, a strong sense of purpose, and a focus on inclusion and well-being, this is a place where you can thrive both personally and professionally.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
You will act as a point of expertise in agile methodologies and frameworks and how they are best applied, building enthusiasm and knowledge.
In all your work you will role model, promote and champion agile and lean standards and practices within a department, across the BBC, and with external organisations.
Day To Day You Will Be
- Responsible for assessing agile maturity and understanding in-depth how agile practices are applied in both teams and the wider organisational system.
- Creating and improving existing data on agility and Product Delivery to drive transparency, continuous improvement and data driven decision-making.
- A motivating coach and change agent, translating principles into practices that work for everyone. You will empower teams and individuals to adopt new techniques to improve outcome focussed delivery.
- Designing and facilitating workshops for teams, departments and senior stakeholders to improving existing skills and capabilities.
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.
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