Organisational Development Consultant

OD Consultant opportunity available on a full-time permanent basis working for a leading higher education organisation based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. This role offers hybrid home working.

Essential experience required for the role:

• Experience across People and OD activities including competency and capability development, leadership and management development, embedding values and behaviours, talent management, team development, organisational and cultural change and employee engagement.

• Excellent knowledge of latest developments and trends in People and OD.

• Knowledge of digital learning techniques and opportunities, with a willingness to apply innovation in this area to our development offer.

• Project management experience with the ability to effectively contribute to or lead project teams.

• Experience of design and delivery of blended learning and development interventions.

• Experience of utilising learning management systems including writing online modules/workshops/e-learning.

• Ability to build strong, sustainable collaborative relationships with colleagues, managers and leaders.

• Internal consultancy skills across the cycle of contracting, design, delivery, and evaluation.

• Able to develop innovative and creative solutions.

• Expertise in facilitation of group activities with the ability to handle challenging individuals and teams.

• Coaching and mentoring capability.

• Excellent IT skills and proficient use of Microsoft Office packages.

• Ability to analyse strategic issues and translate into own work.

• Track record of using a variety of evaluation methodologies to demonstrate value of interventions.

Desirable experience required for the role:

• Knowledge of the UK higher education sector

• Experience of working in a unionised environment

• Knowledge of LMS systems, editing webpages, authoring tools for eLearning etc

The salary is paying up to £44K DOE plus Benefits including the below:

• 25 days holiday (Grade 8) and 13 statutory and customary days (taken at Easter and Christmas).
• Family-friendly policies
• Great onsite facilities including unique fitness centre, eye clinic, physiotherapy & sports rehabilitation, counselling & mental health services and food & drink outlets
• Generous employer contribution pension schemes
• Generous benefit schemes, including car leasing, cycle to work, holiday purchase, home & technology scheme and shopping discounts