Location: | London |
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Salary: | £51,974 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 30th July 2024 |
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Closes: | 4th August 2024 |
Job Ref: | 092948 |
King’s Organisational Development (OD) team plays a key role in realising the university’s strategic aim to build a thriving staff community. Our goal is to enable a positive and inclusive workplace culture in which staff feel a sense of belonging, empowered to reach their potential, and supported to succeed.
We do this through interconnected programmes of work focussed on the broad themes of staff learning and development, career and talent management, workplace culture and engagement, and digital skills competency.
About the RoleWe are seeking to recruit an experienced Organisational Development Careers & Talent Manager to help establish and connect career and development pathways across the organisation to support internal mobility and offer King’s staff the opportunity to learn new skills and develop in their roles. In doing this, the role will also be supporting organisational leadership teams in their efforts to embed talent management initiatives locally, through activities such as succession planning, supporting people plans and overseeing the annual performance management activity.
This is a significant strategic role with the successful candidate leading the delivery of career and talent management activity, both in terms of embedding standardised operational departmental and faculty activity, as well as consulting on wider organisational transformation programmes. Central to this will be the embedding of core frameworks, practices and policies, and the upskilling and support of existing HR colleagues to ensure organisational consistency. There will also be a standalone project to manage the revamp and retendering of our external preferred suppliers/partners, in collaboration with other Organisatioanl Development team members.
The successful candidate will be an amplifier of our values framework “Our Principles in Action” and will be an expert practitioner driving activities aligned to King’s Strategy 2026 and Vision 2029. Mindful of ever-changing working patterns and structures, they will cultivate and promote inclusive ways of working that enable all staff to flourish and have a good work-life balance.
Joining a highly collaborative OD team will mean that the role holder will need to be a positive, proactive self-starter, who is resilient and entrepreneurial in outlook. They will have excellent communication skills, a commitment to continuous improvement and experience of supporting a complex and diverse organisation. This role is for somebody who can manage their own time and deal with frequently changing and multiple priorities in response to organisational needs. It will also come with line management responsibility for an existing Organisational Development team member.
This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered as an indefinite contract.
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