Missing tooth enamel

Here's a new job ad that will have many of my readers grinding their teeth in despair. Head of Culture and Development, BBC News. 

It's pretty obvious that the Culture and Development change needed is to get a more diverse leadership in place - and sustain it. Historically, BBC News meets targets at lower levels with relative ease because of the World Service language services, but across News there are 10% minority ethnic leaders against a target of 20%. 

To apply, you have to go through BBC News' "exclusive search partner Strategic Dimensions". They are an "independent search boutique with an unrivalled network", specialising in interim and permanent HR jobs. I don't know how much they charge, but they seem to have had no impact whatsoever in constructing an understandable job ad. 

All involved should be moved to a locked room today, and not allowed out until they have re-written the following paragraphs in plain English. The HR executive responsible should be made to stand on a box in the BH Piazza, reading the words aloud again and again, until either a) a comprehensible version is produced or b) The One Show starts.

You will be motivated to play a key role in delivering quality and value for all audiences by demonstrating an understanding of others and able to energise and inspire including without direct authority, and thinks systemically, making connections across the wider HR and Business Strategy and adjusts approaches accordingly.

You will have working in a matrix management structure with proven experience of strategic programme delivery and management in driving and  delivering Complex Change Management and able to direct a benefits-led approach to pipeline, inflight portfolio planning, incorporating the potential need for iterative re-planning and cost-effective measurement mechanisms and have extensive up to date experience of evidence-based strategies best practice and trends.