Head of Organisational Change

Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Brighton is seeking an experienced organisational change leader to drive the transformation set out in the 2035 Distinctly Brighton strategy. You will lead the Organisational Change team and oversee major restructures and workforce transition activities, translating approved designs into delivery plans while ensuring legal and organisational compliance.

Working with Transformation and People Department colleagues and senior leaders, you will champion fair redeployment,

Qualifications

• Significant experience of implementing complex organisational change and restructuring programmes.
• Expertise in workforce transition, consultation and organisational implementation.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and employee relations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at all levels.
• Experience of developing and managing high-performing teams.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with effective delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the University's Organisational Change team and oversee major restructuring and workforce transition activity.
• Translate approved organisational designs into effective implementation and workforce transition plans.
• Ensure change is delivered consistently, effectively and in line with legal and organisational requirements.
• Provide expert advice on organisational change, consultation, redeployment and redundancy.
• Support leaders to deliver change in a fair, transparent and legally compliant way.

Skills

Organisational change

Workforce transition

Employment law

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Strategic delivery

Job description

Are you an experienced in organisational change and ready to make a lasting impact at a pivotal moment in an institution's future?

The University of Brighton is delivering significant organisational and workforce transformation to support our future 2035 strategy: Distinctly Brighton . We are seeking an experienced organisational change leader to play a key role in implementing this transformation across the University.

This two-year opportunity will lead the University's Organisational Change team and oversee the delivery of major organisational restructuring and workforce transition activity arising from the Transformation Programme.

Working closely with Transformation and People Department colleagues and senior leaders, you will translate approved organisational designs into effective implementation and workforce transition plans, ensuring change is delivered consistently, effectively and in line with legal and organisational requirements.

You will provide expert advice on organisational change, consultation, redeployment and redundancy, supporting leaders to deliver change in a fair, transparent and legally compliant way.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Significant experience of implementing complex organisational change and restructuring programmes
• Expertise in workforce transition, consultation and organisational implementation
• Strong knowledge of employment law and employee relations
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at all levels
• Experience of developing and managing high-performing teams
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with effective delivery

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the University, and is pivotal to the implementation of significant organisational and workforce change that will support the University's long-term vision.

If you have the expertise, experience and skills and drive to deliver transformational change in a complex organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee’s home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.