Head of Digital Accessibility - Extend
Permanent - Full Time
GB
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 23:59, Sunday 2nd February 2025
The BBC is fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us.
The BBC is committed to equality and inclusion, which underpins our strategy, Value for All. It is critical to universality, ensuring we serve all audiences. The BBC has an ambitious vision to be the world’s first global digital media organisation with public service values at the heart. In support of this vision, we are transforming the way audiences engage with the BBC digitally, through an experience that feels more unified, deeply connected, and content-rich. The accessibility of the digital experience is fundamental to our transformation.
We are seeking a Head of Digital Accessibility to join the UX&D Senior Leadership Team in driving the BBC’s strategy for digital accessibility and establishing a centre of excellence in this space.
Main Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
1. Vision, Strategy & Leadership: Work with the CDO to deliver a comprehensive digital accessibility vision and strategy, and lead on embedding best practice at the organisational level, ensuring our digital experiences preserve and enable access for digitally excluded user groups. You will also lead a talented team of digital accessibility specialists, providing them with clarity of direction, empowering them to drive strategic work and holding them accountable for delivering impact.
2. Standards and Best Practice: Lead on establishing and maintaining best practice aligned with international standards (WCAG, ADA) as well as the BBC values, standards, guidelines, and guidance, to ensure our digital services and internal systems are accessible by all, by default. You will also lead on the strategy with partners and procurement teams to support the procurement of accessible and inclusive digital services and systems for our staff.
3. Communities of Practice: Advocate for a culture of accessibility and inclusion over compliance, empowering teams to champion these approaches in creating digital experiences. Together with your team, define best practices, coach and guide stakeholders, communities of practice, and teams across different functions and divisions.
4. Governance and Accountability: Lead on delivering annual plans for digital accessibility and be responsible for the budget and ROI, ensuring impact is delivered. Ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to track progress, through assessments and reporting. Drive consistent approaches to testing, identifying, and addressing accessibility barriers across all platforms (Mobile App, TV, Web, etc).
5. Communication & Engagement: Bring stakeholders across the BBC together and inspire and enable them to drive change in their teams and divisions. Host and/or moderate discussions to ensure progress on the strategy. Speak on behalf of and represent the digital accessibility community to large audiences inside and outside of the BBC and provide thought leadership to evolve our digital accessibility strategy.
Are You The Right Candidate?
You will be a thought leader in the digital accessibility field, and an experienced practitioner and team leader, confident in advocating, raising awareness, and articulating digital accessibility needs and best practices in crafting and building user-led service experiences.
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for and experience working with user-centred design and how accessibility is integral to usable, useful, and distinctive digital experiences.
As an advocate for the user and subject matter expert on all matters to do with digital accessibility, assistive technology, related standards, and regulation, you will have experience in making and driving strategic recommendations and overseeing programmes of work to deliver these.
You will be comfortable working with diverse stakeholders, and be able to quickly establish credibility, influence, and trust as well as having the ability to deliver change through influence.
Package Description
Band: F
Contract type: Permanent
Location: any UK BBC hub (with hybrid working)
Salary range: up to £110,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
About the BBC
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 the offer stage.
* Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
* Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
* Benefits – we offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance, and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a pension scheme, and discounted dental, health care, gym, and much more.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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.
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