Hr Consultant Od

Sheffield City Council; England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking an ambitious Organisational Development Consultant to join our new OD function during a pivotal transformation. You will work with senior leaders to translate ambition into practical, sustainable change, shaping the organisation to be high performing, inclusive and future-ready.

You will partner across People, L+D, Internal Communications, Employee Engagement and the Transformation Office to deliver a coherent OD framework, workforce planning and leadership

Responsibilities

• Develop a coherent corporate OD framework and support prioritisation and sequencing of major organisational change.
• Contribute to organisational design, including spans and layers, operating models and redesign assurance.
• Support strategic workforce planning, exploring future skills, talent and succession pipelines, and new capability approaches.
• Embed a consistent leadership model and strengthen performance management to transition key programmes into business as usual.

Job description

We are looking for an ambitious, credible and collaborative Organisational Development Consultant to join our newly established OD function at a pivotal moment for the Council. This is a rare opportunity to influence organisation wide transformation, working at the heart of Future Sheffield to help create an organisation that is well designed, high performing, inclusive and ready for the future.

This not a role focused solely on developing policy or producing frameworks. You will be a visible stratgic partner who turns organisational ambition into practical, sustainable change. Working closely with senior leaders, People Business Partners, L+D, Internal comms, Employee Engagement and the Transformation Office, you will provide expert advice, constructive challenge and hands on support across a varied portfolio of activity.

Your remit will inclue helping to develop a coherent corporate OD framework and supporting the prioritisation and sequencing of major organisational change. You will contribute to organisational desgin, including spans and layers, operating models and assurance of redesign proposals, while helping services align structures, accountability, outcomes and affordability.

You will also support the development of strategic workforce planning, exploring future skills, workforce supply and demand, talent and succession pipelines, scarce skill and new approaches to building, buying or automating capability. Alongside this you will help to embed a consistent leadership model, strenghten performance management and support the transition of the Strategic role review programme into business as usual activity.

We are seeking someone who combines strategic thinking with the confidence and pragmatism to make change happen. If you are energised by complexity, motivated by public service and excited by the opportunity to build a credible OD offer that enables lasting Organisational improvement, we would love to hear from you.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.