Organisation Design and Development Practitioner

ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham) or London and working between office and remote throughout the week.
As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is a 40% minimum office attendance requirement. Attendance is typically at your contractual office, with occasional travel to alternative locations.
This post is available for eligible colleagues with greater flexibility on attendance (which includes those on Homeworking contracts) to apply. Candidates will need to discuss their current greater flexibilities with the Hiring Manager to agree an arrangement that meets the needs of the individual circumstances and on-going needs of the business., Do you have a passion for Organisation Design and Development (OD&D) and proven organisation design delivery experience within a complex organisational/programme environment?
If so, this could be the role for you. This role is crucial in supporting the Head of OD&D to shape and implement the future vision of the OD&D consultancy model across the ONS. It also involves leading and managing end-to-end Organisation Design and Development projects. Throughout the delivery, this role will offer expert OD&D advice and partner with senior leaders to enhance organisational effectiveness and efficiency by redesigning the entire or parts of the organisational system.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social, and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.
The role sits in the Organisation Design and Development Team, within the People Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness (SOE) division, which forms part of the wider People Business Services (PBS) Directorate.
About the Organisation and Development Team:
As a team, we are accountable for providing a holistic organisation design and development service to the organisation, in partnership with key organisational stakeholders. The team supports leaders in answering the strategic questions that will inform our future strategy and translating strategic goals into effective operating models. It requires assessing how we are organised in terms of functions and services but, more importantly, how the elements of the system work together. This includes structures, ways of working, roles and responsibilities, boundaries, and workflows., The OD&D service spans the breadth of the organisation, providing a strategic consultancy service to senior leaders across ONS, who are often grappling with complex, ambiguous and ‘whole system’ challenges. These range from organisation design, organisational effectiveness, restructuring, organisational change and culture. As a recognised HR sub-profession, OD&D practitioners work through the system to build organisational effectiveness and efficiency by paying attention to both human and whole system needs.
You will lead, coach, and manage colleagues through change interventions whilst navigating a complex landscape in partnership with organisational leaders and subject matter experts across the office. You will establish a strong professional network across the organisation to keep abreast of the changes happening across the office that may have an OD&D impact. Identifying and effectively scoping the resulting OD&D requirements with senior leaders will be essential to your success. You will become an active member of the extended leadership team across the SOE division and PBS directorate.
Responsibilities
+ Establish, lead, and manage the delivery of change interventions by providing expert OD&D advice and partnering with senior leaders, delivering improved organisation effectiveness and efficiency through the redesign of the whole or parts of the organisation.
+ Use high-quality written and verbal communication skills to develop briefings, guidance, and other documents, with appropriate styles for a wide variety of stakeholders, making the best use of data to inform decisions.
+ Support the OD&D Head of Service to develop and evolve the ONS’s Organisation Design and Development consultancy service and to develop OD&D capability across ONS, using best practices from across the Civil Service and beyond.
+ Build and maintain extensive working relationships across new and existing internal and external stakeholder networks, seek opportunities for collaboration, capability building, and enhance the OD&D team’s reputation for high-quality delivery at pace.
+ Role model excellent leadership, communication, decision-making, and change management behaviours whilst stimulating cultural growth as you lead people through change and a strong understanding of a learning culture and a commitment to your own development and personal growth.
This role will have line management responsibilities., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Changing and Improving
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Leadership
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Working Together, At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
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ONS are committed to flexible ways of working that support a healthy work-life balance. ONS has already considered how this job could be right sized for applicants working flexibly and we are happy to explore options with you about working part time, in a job share or flexibly, in line with our hybrid working policies., Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history, skill and experience and personal statement. Your application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should use this space fully to provide evidence for each essential criteria within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions and set them out using the STAR acronym (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.
In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e., those scoring the highest.
Should you be invited to interview you will be assessed against all the behaviours as outlined in the advert.
A presentation will be required at interview. Further information will be provided to shortlisted candidates prior to interview.
Interviews will be held via video conferencing.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
Sift will take place from: Tuesday 12th November
Interviews will take place: Thursday 21st November
Dates are subject to change
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+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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+ Substantial expertise leading and applying organisation design interventions at pace. Using OD&D methodologies and data to address complex issues in a large organisation, with a track record in achieving improved organisation effectiveness and cultural improvement through organisation development thinking.
+ Comfort with ambiguity and complexity, with the confidence to make positive interventions even when the data is incomplete, or people hold conflicting views.
+ Able to create and hold the space for people to reimagine the problem, find common ground and take forward opportunities. Successful senior stakeholder management with a reputation as a trusted adviser, able to engage with colleagues at all levels to surface and tackle complex issues, and a track record of building a network of professional relationships.
+ Experience of leading and managing others to deliver a high quality service to users, whilst building the capability of the team.
+ Adept at role-modelling the leadership behaviours desired in the modern organisation (relational leadership traits of inclusion, agility, respect) to garner trust from people at all levels and a well-honed self awareness, willingness to seek feedback and act with positive intent to grow as a practitioner and a person. Candidates will be required to travel across all ONS sites
Candidates will be required to travel across all ONS sites., • A CIPD qualification, or willingness to work towards one; or a relevant advanced qualification in OD&D or a similar field (such as organisational psychology).

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