Organisational Development Manager

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Scotland, is currently looking to recruit an Organisational Development Manager for an initial 5-month contract, with potential to extend, on a rate of £450-£500/day (Inside IR35). This role can be worked on a mostly remote basis, with access to offices across Scotland.

Responsibilities:

• Establish relationships with a wide range of stakeholders to support the delivery of the corporate priorities to advise and influence in their subject matter expertise.
• Communicate, using appropriate styles, methods and timing, including digital channels, to maximise understanding and impact.
• Proactively deal with varied situations with limited guidance.
• Using full knowledge and/or understanding of principles in a specific expertise to provide objective advice and resolve problems without guidance.
• Find ways to improve systems and structures to deliver more streamlined resources.
• Recognise patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/data and draw key conclusions, costs, benefits, risks, and potential responses.
• Encourage collaborative teamwork within the own team and across teams.
• Identify and develop team members to support succession planning, coaching, mentoring and developing others.
• Manage the skills development programme, providing direction and guidance to the senior OD adviser aligned to this work and reporting to the People Programme Board.
• Support the senior OD adviser with relevant artefacts and plans.
• Use a people-centred design approach, ensuring relevant user groups are included in the design and testing processes.
• Use best practices to ensure stakeholders are engaged in our approach to the learning hub.
• Monitor and mitigate risks to delivery, escalating to the People Programme Board where needed.
• Support the closure of the career conversations project, working with the senior OD adviser to move this into business as usual.
• Use of change management approaches and techniques to ensure career conversations are embedded in the organisation.
• Support the senior adviser in looking for continuous improvement opportunities to further develop our approach to performance.
• To ensure we are meeting the public sector equality duties and mainstreaming inclusion at the organisation, we will be establishing EDI steering and delivery groups. This role will support the aligned OD senior adviser to set up these groups and their ways of working using project management tools and approaches.
• Chair the EDI delivery group once it has been established, reporting progress against equality outcomes to the steering group.
• Provide coaching and support to the aligned senior OD adviser, enabling them to drive the delivery of this work.

Essential Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of theory and good practice in project management and change management.
• Track record in delivering successful programmes and projects that support organisational wide change.
• Ability to project manage organisational-wide initiatives, which deliver a varied programme of work.
• Ability to build and sustain working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve results.
• Change management skills, which foster agility, influence stakeholders, and create user-centred delivery, which builds engagement and delivers against strategic aims.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development and a desire to continually develop yourself to build knowledge, expertise, and competence.
• Ability and desire to move effectively between strategic and operational tasks and thinking.
• Ability to utilise agile methodology and a service design approach within a People & OD setting.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary environments.

Desirable Skills:

• Although Gaelic language is not a prerequisite it is a desirable skill in support of our commitment to our Gaelic Language Plan.

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