Head of Organisational Development & Culture

Uxbridge Permanent £55,000 - £65,000 per year View Job Description
A senior Organisational Development and Culture role leading learning, workforce capability, culture transformation and employee experience across a large, multi-site education organisation. You will shape and mobilise the people strategy needed to support ambitious organisational growth and future workforce requirements.
  • Lead a major culture and workforce transformation agenda
  • Shape leadership, capability and employee experience

About Our Client

A not-for-profit/ education organisation.

Job Description

  • Lead the development of a long-term workforce capability strategy
  • Align workforce capability with future organisational and service requirements
  • Lead cultural diagnostics and organisation-wide culture transformation
  • Develop and embed a behavioural framework aligned to organisational values
  • Design a scalable leadership development framework and programme
  • Lead workforce skills audits and develop a structured CPD framework
  • Develop the employee experience and engagement strategy
  • Lead engagement surveys, insight, action planning and impact measurement
  • Develop approaches to apprenticeship funding and workforce development investment
  • Produce senior-level business cases, recommendations and implementation plans

The Successful Applicant

A successful Head of Organisational Development & Culture should have:

  • Senior experience across OD, L&D, culture and employee experience
  • Strong track record of translating strategy into practical programmes
  • Proven experience designing leadership development programmes
  • Experience delivering organisation-wide culture change
  • Strong employee engagement and employee listening expertise
  • Comfortable influencing senior executives and multiple stakeholder groups
  • Strong programme management and implementation capability
  • Able to produce high-quality business cases and executive-level papers
  • Understanding of apprenticeship funding and workforce development
  • Credible, collaborative and commercially minded people leader

What's on Offer

  • Salary ranging from £55,000 to £65,000, dependent on the level of experience
  • 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Senior leadership role with significant strategic influence
  • Opportunity to shape a major workforce and culture agenda
  • Responsibility for leading specialist OD/L&D and employee experience teams
  • Hybrid working can be considered, but this is important:
    • Candidates need to be comfortable travelling between sites.
  • Opportunity to make a significant, measurable impact on organisational capability, culture and employee experience



If you're interested in this role, apply now.

Contact
Helen Abdel Jabbar
Quote job ref
JN-082026-7083185
Phone number
+447974390889

Job summary

Job function
Human Resources
Subsector
Learning & Development
Sector
Not For Profit
Where
Uxbridge
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Helen Abdel Jabbar
Consultant phone
+447974390889
Job reference
JN-082026-7083185