Agile Coach

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

• 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.

Your Skills And Experience

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Passionate about agile and lean, with an interest in systems thinking, and have learnt different ways to approach agile coaching in large organisations.
• Extensive experience in coaching, mentoring and upskilling colleagues, including leaders at all levels of an organisation as needed.
• Experience implementing change, maturing agile practices and instilling continuous improvement capabilities across teams, departments and within an organisation with demonstrable impact.
• Wide-ranging skills as a session designer and facilitator, able to design inclusive sessions accounting for team dynamics and different stages of the product development lifecycle.
• You are a clear, confident and engaging communicator able to connect with people at all levels of an organisation
• Experience of applying creativity in your work, showing innovative responses to problems.
• You lead with curiosity, reserve judgement, and lead by example through living the agile values and mindset.
• You keep up-to-date with the latest agile delivery and product development trends and are continuously learning.

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.

This role is currently advertised as internal only. Freelancers are eligible to apply if they have been on a Worker Contract (more info here) continuously for 6 months. If less than 6 months (or they have had a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements), they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

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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.