HR Consultant OD

Sheffield City Council; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking an Organisational Development Consultant to advise senior leaders on organisation-wide change within the Future Sheffield programme. The role is hands-on, focusing on the corporate OD framework, organisation design and strategic workforce planning.

The post involves working with partner teams to ensure change is embedded, with a credible leadership model and improved performance management across services.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinking.
• Confidence and pragmatism to make change happen.
• Credible, collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior leaders and give challenge and hands-on support across a varied OD portfolio
• Help develop a coherent corporate OD framework
• Support the prioritisation and sequencing of major organisational change
• Contribute to organisation design, including spans and layers, operating models and assurance of redesign proposals
• Help services align structures, accountability, outcomes and affordability
• Support strategic workforce planning, covering future skills, supply and demand, talent and succession, and build, buy or automate options
• Help embed a consistent leadership model
• Strengthen performance management
• Support the transition of the Strategic role review programme into business as usual
• Work with People Business Partners, L+D, internal comms, employee engagement and the Transformation Office

Skills

Strategic thinking

Confidence

Collaborative approach

Job description

This Organisational Development Consultant post sits in the newly established OD function at Sheffield City Council, linked to the Future Sheffield programme. The core of the work is advising senior leaders and partner teams on organisation-wide change, spanning the corporate OD framework, organisation design and strategic workforce planning. It is hands‑on rather than policy‑led, with the aim of making change stick. Strategic thinking and the confidence to deliver change are the key tests of fit.

What the job involves

• Advise senior leaders and give challenge and hands‑on support across a varied OD portfolio
• Help develop a coherent corporate OD framework
• Support the prioritisation and sequencing of major organisational change
• Contribute to organisation design, including spans and layers, operating models and assurance of redesign proposals
• Help services align structures, accountability, outcomes and affordability
• Support strategic workforce planning, covering future skills, supply and demand, talent and succession, and build, buy or automate options
• Help embed a consistent leadership model
• Strengthen performance management
• Support the transition of the Strategic role review programme into business as usual
• Work with People Business Partners, L+D, internal comms, employee engagement and the Transformation Office

What’s required

Skills & knowledge

• Strategic thinking
• Confidence and pragmatism to make change happen
• Credible, collaborative approach

Checks & eligibility

• Relevant safeguarding checks where appropriate to the role

What’s offered

• Full‑time contract of 37 hours over 52 weeks
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Flexible working options, including reduced hours, part time and job share
• Support for staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly
• Starting salary at bottom of grade, or a higher point on payslip evidence of basic pay