Organisational Development Consultant

Our client, an award winning employer based in the East Midlands, is currently recruiting for an Organisational Development Consultant.

In addition to offering a competitive salary (c£38,000 – £51,500pa) and hybrid working (2 days in the office per week), they offer a selection of fantastic benefits including enhanced pension (up to 19%), 30 days annual leave + bank holidays with the option to sell/purchase further days, private healthcare and various other flexible benefits.

Duties will include (but not limited to):

• Develop, implement and monitor OD solutions which facilitate transformation and are aligned to the strategic ambitions, acting as an enabler to academic delivery, staff and student experience, and business operations
• Work as an internal consultant building close relationships across Academia and Professional Services to discern OD needs and trends and solve to these with demonstrable returns on organisational efficiency and effectiveness to drive performance
• Develop and maintain technical OD proficiency through contacts with relevant sector bodies, professional associations and other institutions, to ensure optimal outside-in delivery of competitive practice and to broaden and deepen organisational OD capacity and capability
• Facilitate change through the application of behavioural science to enable new knowledge, ways of thinking and skills to effect change in a flexible, participative and adaptive manner
• Drive change solutions from employee feedback through programmes of work which intervene to improve the employee experience and engagement at key parts of the employee lifecycle
• Design and deliver development solutions to transform the business’ leadership capability to deliver and improve organisational outcome
• Develop supply and demand talent solutions ensuring alignment to future capability needs against which to recruit, identify, develop and deploy strategic talent
• Connect people to team and organisational performance by aligning individuals to strategy and purpose as part of overall business performance
• Drive a growth mind-set through designing and delivering programmes of learning and career frameworks to increase knowledge, skills and behaviours to define future capability requirements and close future capability gaps
• Plan and deliver initiatives to evolve and shift culture in line with organisational purpose and strategy
• Drive and embed an inclusive culture to enhance employee trust and commitment and leverage the value of diversity
• Design and deliver projects to maintain workforce relevance, using future capability and capacity models of workforce planning
• Influence and facilitate the re-design of operating models to drive organisational effectiveness and efficiency

About you:

Broad experience as a consultant or OD practitioner in at least 6 of the following with depth of experience in at least 3:

• Facilitating change
• Learning and Leadership development against future capability demands
• Developing talent management solutions against future capability demands
• Employee experience design to enhance engagement
• Delivering initiatives to evolve organisational culture and inclusion
• Facilitating the re-design of operating models
• Workforce transformation and enablement of new ways of working
• Strategic workforce planning
• Performance enablement, connecting people and business performance
• Using people technology to enable learning, talent and performance solutions

Working hours:

• 5 hours per week – hybrid role – WFH available 3 times per week

For further information on the position, please email enquiries to acragg@jarsolutions.co.uk

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

KEYWORDS: Organisational Development; OD; OD Practitioner; OD Consultant; Succession Planning

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