A month to go til the formal appearance of new Director General Matt Brittin walking into Broadcasting House, where, even before yesterday's job cut announcement, only 34% of staff had confidence in the Corporation's Executive leadership team.
Some may remember the headlines from 2022/23 when Rhodri Talfan Davies so adroitly steered BBC Local Radio into the shedding ring, and picked a remaining few to deliver dash-cam footage and detailed investigations like "A red kite took my mother-in-law's sausage roll" to BBC News Online. It was Rhodri who announced the cuts target yesterday - timed so you can spend your summer holidays worrying whether you'll be in the shedding ring in September. Rhodri also announced a recruitment freeze, a ban on travel when a virtual meeting will do, and an eagle eye on consultancy spend.
The last jobs under the wire for the recruitment freeze include a Senior Journalist, Growth, BBC Local ("You will work on growth projects to increase the reach and impact of BBC Local’s digital output by using levers and strategies to improve discoverability of our content for target audience groups.") and a £60k pa HR Operations Lead.
On consultants, maybe Matt should show the door to Boston Consulting and Price Waterhouse Cooper, as the BBC merges Technology and Product, having only split them up four years ago. And remind me of the results of Change Associates involvement in improving BBC Culture ?
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