HR Consultant OD

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.