Strategic Organisation Design Lead

Government Recruitment Service; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in York is seeking a Head of Organisation Design & Development to lead organisation design and development across the Defra Group during a period of organisational change.

You will lead a team of seven Grade 7 OD&D practitioners, working with Directors General, HR Directors and ALB leaders to translate complex requirements into practical organisational solutions and deliverable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead organisation design and restructuring across the Defra Group, aligning structures with political direction, including devolution and the future Civil Service, and enabling delivery of Defra's organisational outcomes.
• Lead OD&D work in Core Defra, agencies and arm's-length bodies, ensuring expert resource is deployed to the highest-priority organisational and transformation challenges.
• Work confidently with Directors General, HR Directors and ALB leaders, providing trusted evidence-based advice, constructive challenge and practical organisational solutions.
• Play a central role in the Workforce Strategy and Transformation Programme, particularly enabling the Rightsizing pillar through organisation design expertise and delivery.
• Provide expert consultancy across organisation design, organisational development, culture and behaviour, team effectiveness, transformation and change, and workforce strategy, with organisation design as the principal focus.
• Lead the central OD&D service and act as Head of Practice, setting professional standards, assuring quality and strengthening OD&D methods and capability across the Group.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of around seven Grade 7 OD&D practitioners, building bench strength, professional confidence and a cohesive, inclusive and high-performing service.
• Manage demand, priorities and practitioner deployment across the Group, balancing urgent restructuring activity with longer-term organisational development.
• Commission and procure specialist OD&D contractors where needed, integrating them effectively into the team and ensuring quality, value and delivery.
• Use organisational evidence, workforce insight and professional judgement to shape options, recommendations and implementation plans that are practical and sustainable.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in York is seeking a Head of Organisation Design & Development to lead organisation design and development across the Defra Group during a period of organisational change.

You will lead a team of seven Grade 7 OD&D practitioners, working with Directors General, HR Directors and ALB leaders to translate complex requirements into practical organisational solutions and deliverable outcomes.