Organizational Design lead

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Organizational Design Lead Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based Hybrid 2 days a week in Swindon and occasional travel to Cambridge and Nottingham UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK. UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies. As a Organizational Design Lead , your main responsibilities will be to: * Lead the analysis and design of organisational capabilities, processes, interfaces and ways of working required to support the future NERC operating model, as part of the NERC Transformation Programme. * Work across NERC to develop the business architecture that underpins organisational design decisions, ensuring that structures, roles, accountabilities and operating practices are aligned to strategic objectives and organisational requirements. * Provide the evidence base, analysis and design expertise required to support organisational redesign, workforce transition planning and implementation * Analyse current organisational structures, operating practices and service delivery arrangements and develop future-state operating model and organisational design artefacts Essential: * Strong organisational design and operating model experience, ideally across large, complex organisations. * Experience bringing together end-to-end processes, ways of working, roles, responsibilities and governance frameworks into a clear operating model. * Strong understanding of how an operating model works in practice, including how different teams/functions interface and work together effectively. * Experience implementing and embedding new operating models, with data and technology used as enablers rather than being the main focus of the transformation. Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas. Disability Confident As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance. In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following 'this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different'. JBRP1_UKTJ