This is an exciting opportunity to join Durham University as Head of Organisation Development.
Durham University seek the highest distinction in research and scholarship and are committed to excellence in all aspects of education and transmission of knowledge.
Durham produce world-leading and world-changing research across all three Faculties, the education is challenging, enabling, research-led and transformative and our wider student experience, delivered through our Colleges, Durham Students’ Union and Experience Durham, is among the best in the UK
People are the most important asset of Durham University and the HR and OD Department is pivotal in ensuring that the University attracts, recruits, develops, rewards and retains the very best talent from across the world into the University community. Building on the bold and ambitious University Strategy, a key role of HR and OD is to secure the University’s strategic aim, ‘to be a world leading employer’ by ensuring that staff can reach their full potential.
The Department plays a lead role in creating a working environment for staff (and potential staff) which is supportive, stimulating and informative and which provides for creative and innovative employment practices and opportunities.
Our aim is to make sure that Durham University is a great place to work.
A new Head of Organisation Development is now being sought to work closely with colleagues in the department and across the institution. The role reports to the Director of HR and OD.
- The Head of Organisation Development will be accountable for the effective leadership of the OD team and will have the responsibility for shaping developing and delivering a strategically aligned OD service and related learning and development provision.
- Working closely with the Director of HR and OD, the post-holder will develop and implement the University’s Organisation Development and Learning and Development Strategy and operational plan as a key enabler of the overall People Strategy.
- A member of the HR leadership team; developing and delivering a strategically aligned OD service and provision, the Head of Organisation Development will be a confident communicator and manager of people. You will have a commitment to professional excellence and proven experience of developing an effective and innovative approach to working with both professional and academic colleagues, to ensure that staff are supported to realise their potential and understand their contribution to the University’s goals.
- Experience of delivering strategically aligned executive and leadership development programmes, and of supporting organisations through periods of significant change, would be particularly relevant.