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.
• Provide objective advice and resolve problems without guidance using full knowledge and/or understanding of principles in a specific expertise.
• 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 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.
• Establish EDI steering and delivery groups to meet public sector equality duties and mainstream inclusion at the organisation.
• 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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