Job Description

Learning and Organisational Development Consultant

Directorate of People and Organisational Development

Grade G (?)Role profile: SMG1 (?)

Full time/ Fixed term

Duties of the role
Overall purpose of the role / Working as part of the Learning and Organisational Development (L&OD) team in analysing, designing, delivering and evaluating a broad range of L&OD interventions across the organisation. The role will work in partnership across the organisation with a primary purpose and focus to raise organisational performance and effectiveness.The role holder will provide L&OD support and guidance to business change project managers with the team as well as faculties, departments and teams.
To be accountable for:
  • Analysing, designing and facilitating planned L&OD interventions to the highest quality
  • Effectively managing stakeholders across the university
  • Supporting wider cultural change programmes to ensure cultural change is successfully embedded
  • Leading or supporting the facilitation of a range of workshop, training sessions or development programmes

Main duties and responsibilities /
  • Develop strategic partnerships with the DMU leadership team, People and Organisational Development function and other internal clients to identify and pro-actively respond to opportunities to increase organisational effectiveness linked to DMU’s strategic framework
  • Identify, analyse, recommend, implement and evaluate a broad range of L&OD interventions to achieve sustainable solutions and impact
  • Be proactive in identifying and responding to L&OD issues by bringing key stakeholders together to assess root causes and performance gaps. Implementing appropriate interventions, including strategic planning, tactical and project planning, facilitation, instruction, programme design, and performance analysis
  • Through a range of development interventions equip and enable managers and other change leaders to effectively lead change
  • Build positive relationships across the university and seek to fully understand context, barriers, constraints and influences in order to co-create sustainable change that meets individuals department and organisational outcomes
Perform any other duties commensurate with the job grade as reasonably required from time to time
Treat all DMU staff, students, contractors and visitors with dignity and respect. Provide a service that complies with the Equality Act 2010, eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations with particular attention to the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief (or none), sex and sexual orientation.