Senior OD Consultant (LLD) Partnering

About us

UCLs Organisational Development (OD) department offers extensive learning and career development opportunities to over 16,000 colleagues in academic, research, teaching and professional services. The Learning and Leadership Development (LLD) Team is a key part of Organisational Development, responsible for all aspects of learning and leadership development.

About the role

In the newly created job of Senior OD Consultant (LLD) - Partnering, youll provide expert L&D/OD practitioner insights and strong skills in using a range of OD consulting and diagnostic methods to deliver learning and leadership development solutions.

Together with the Senior OD Consultant (LLD) - Digital Operations, youll be responsible for the hands-on delivery of the Learning and Leadership Development offer and leading end-to-end organisation-wide programmes and development initiatives.

You will lead on embedding an OD people partnering approach within LLD and collaborate with HR and OD colleagues to develop HR/OD interventions to meet emerging organisational requirements.

About you

To do this job youll need to be a highly credible and skilled L&D/OD professional with significant experience of internal consultancy in a complex organisation, and experience of leading and managing a team.

Your capability in designing, delivering and evaluating the impact of large-scale digitally integrated blended learning and leadership development programmes will be substantial, and evident in the examples you can give of how you done this for different levels - first-line managers, middle managers, leaders and at an executive leadership level.

Through your effective project management skills and operational management experience you will help the team to deliver innovative and fit-for-purpose people development solutions across the whole OD cycle.

Your ability to influence, build and maintain relationships to achieve results in a complex environment is crucial.

Key also will be your ability to facilitate conversations with senior stakeholders to identify areas requiring OD support and how you proactively and positively collaborate with colleagues across OD and HR to deliver joined-up solutions.

Please review the attached Job Description, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

Please note - were also hiring for a Senior OD Consultant (LLD) - Digital & Operations. Applicants are welcome to be considered for both roles if they wish.

The deadline for applications is midnight on January 22nd. We intend to hold first interviews w/c 10th February. First interviews will be competency based and include a presentation and a scenario-based exercise. Second interviews will be held w/c 17th February.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunity this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

• On-Site nursery

• On-site gym

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As Londons Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the worlds talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCLs workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/