Organisational Development Officer (ARX)

UCL AI Centre; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The UCL AI Centre is looking for an Organisational Development Officer to contribute to strategic projects aimed at enhancing the academic and researcher experience. This permanent position involves providing administrative support for various programs and working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to foster a positive research culture. The role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, ensuring impactful initiatives in Higher Education.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Experience working within researcher development environments.
• Ability to work effectively as part of multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Attention to detail and ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and logistical support for learning interventions.
• Support data gathering including surveys and focus groups.
• Nurture positive working relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Customer Service

Administrative Support

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Zoom

Learning Management Systems

Job description

Ref Number C14-00147 Professional Expertise HR and Wellbeing Department Human Resources Division (C14) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £35,930-£41,255 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment No Closing Date 10-Jun-2025

About Us

The Academic and Researcher Experience Team (ARX) within Organisational Development works across functions to deliver strategic projects which engage and nurture academics and researchers to be collaborative, supportive and creative in increasingly competitive and challenging environment. Current key projects include the Researcher Skills Development Programmes, Festival of Early-Stage Researchers, Early-Career Researcher (ECR) Career Aspiration Programme and Mid-Career Researcher (MCR) Career Acceleration Programme.

About The Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to UCL’s status as a beacon for excellent research culture across the Higher Education Sector, driven by forging closer links with key stakeholders and communities.

As an Organisational Development (OD) Officer, you will provide crucial administrative and end-to-end support to the high impact programmes, initiatives and interventions delivered by the ARX team. You will also build your knowledge and skills within OD and contribute to the design, delivery, evaluation and reshaping of new and continuing projects.

Your responsibilities will involve (but are not limited to the following):

• Provide administrative and logistical support to the development of new learning interventions and continuing programmes within academic and researcher experience
• Ensure effective use of digital platforms (including Microsoft Teams, Zoom) and the relevant learning management system (including MyLearning, Inkpath, Moodle, LearnUpon), in line with programme delivery.
• Provide support with data gathering including surveys, focus groups, workshops and interviews
• Contribute ideas and recommendations during the review, design and development of learning interventions.
• Take ownership of communication via diverse channels such as mailing lists, weekly newsletter, and webpages
• Nurture positive working relationships with key stakeholders, including internal colleagues, delegates and external training providers
• Work across OD to identify areas for improvement for researcher development experience.
  
  

We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible. Please note, this is a hybrid role based onsite 1-2-days per week (Monday) plus any days with events that require in person attendance.

Job Ref: C14-00147

Closing Date: 10-06-2025 – 23:59 (UK time)

About You

As a Higher Education and or Research & Development organisational development or learning and development administrative professional, you have experience working within researcher development environments and understand researcher development needs. You have skills in organisation, customer service, administrative support and also have the ability to work effectively as part of multi-disciplinary project teams.

You prioritise making inclusion, diversity and intercultural awareness central to your way of working as well as bringing innovative ideas to improve the development of researcher and academic communities.

You Will Also Be Able To Demonstrate The Following

• Excellent customer facing skills with the ability to demonstrate processes involved in providing a great service
• Experience organising meetings, taking notes and writing minutes
• Experience supporting the design, delivery and development of learning and development projects
• Attention to detail with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced working environment.
  
  

Although not essential, any experience in data analysis, supplier management or broad understanding of development theory and associated techniques would be beneficial

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
  
  

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Available documents

Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.

• download: G6 OD Officer (ARX) JD.docx