HR Consultant OD

Beighton; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking an ambitious Organisational Development Consultant to join the new OD function at a pivotal moment for Future Sheffield. You will influence organisation-wide transformation and work at the heart of the council to create a high-performing, inclusive organisation.

You will work with senior leaders and HR teams, provide expert advice, support organisational design, leadership models, and strategic workforce planning while promoting flexible working and equality.

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

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.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.