Organisational Development Consultant

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd; Ealing; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

An established housing association is seeking an Organisational Development Consultant to enhance their People Strategy initiatives. This role involves delivering impactful programs focused on leadership, employee engagement, and wellbeing. You will be instrumental in shaping a diverse and motivated workforce, ensuring that the organization remains committed to its social purpose. With a flexible hybrid working model and a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others while advancing their career in a rewarding sector.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Up to 8% contributory pension

Flexible working

Investment in learning and development

Annual allowance for health and lifestyle benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• GCSE level education in Math and English required.
• Experience in designing and delivering employee engagement activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the wellbeing action plan and initiatives.
• Design and deliver leadership and management development programs.

Skills

Organisation Development

Employee Engagement

ED&I Principles

Wellbeing Initiatives

Training Needs Analysis

Data Analysis

Education

GCSE in Math and English (Grades A*-C)

OD Qualification (Desirable)

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Organisational Development Consultant
Salary: £45,859 - £48,000
Location: Ealing office base with flexible hybrid working
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

About us
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

Role Overview
We are looking for an Organisational Development Consultant to join our fantastic People Services division. This role is tasked with delivering the People Strategy initiatives relating to leadership and management development, employee engagement, ED&I and Wellbeing. You will also provide support in the delivery of leadership and management development activity which will include training needs analysis (TNA), design and delivery of solutions.

This role will also create, shape and deliver appropriate interventions to ensure that A2Dominion continues to develop an engaged, motivated and diverse workforce where wellbeing and inclusion is a key and critical factor.

Key responsibilities:

1. To lead the development of the wellbeing action plan including but not limited to colleague engagement sessions, employee and manager wellbeing support and facilitation of Wellbeing Ambassadors and wellbeing events.
2. Design, create and deliver leadership and management development initiatives within A2Dominion (supported by the wider OD Team).
3. Support and shape EDI initiatives to continue to create a diverse and inclusive workforce including implementing data disclosure campaigns, monitoring of pay gaps and implementing actions to reduce, leading on EDI pledges, relaunching the internal EDI Network and delivery of key EDI events.
4. Responsibility for delivering the employee engagement pulse survey programme including design, implementation, communications plan and action planning.
5. Monitor and evaluate all initiatives and programmes delivered in wellbeing, ED&I and employee engagement, providing management information and insight as required.

More about you

1. Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math and English (Grades A*- C).
2. Good understanding of organisation development interventions and training lifecycles.
3. Good understanding of ED&I principles and experience of delivering interventions to support improvement.
4. Experience of shaping and delivering activity related to wellbeing.
5. Good experience of designing and delivering employee engagement activities particularly running annual/pulse surveys and associated action planning.
6. Proven track record of providing high quality development solutions, measuring user adoption and return on investment.
7. Gained or working towards an OD Qualification (Desirable).
8. This role requires basic use of Microsoft Teams for collaboration, and advanced proficiency in other Microsoft packages such as PowerPoints for presentations.

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

1. 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service.
2. Up to 8% contributory pension.
3. Flexible working.
4. Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: [e-mail].

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

1. actively look to attract and recruit disabled people.
2. provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
3. offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
4. be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
5. make reasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at [e-mail].

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong.