Head of Organisational Development and Culture

Our client, a leading Education provider in North West London is now seeking a Head of Organisational Development and Culture to lead a strategic transformation across the organisation. This permanent role offers a salary in the range of £53,000 to £60,000 pa and sits at a pivotal moment for the organisation. The successful candidate will design and deliver a coherent organisational development framework that builds leadership strength, transforms culture, and ensures the organisation's workforce is ready to deliver high-quality teaching and learning outcomes aligned with inspection frameworks and funding requirements.

As Head of Organisational Development and Culture your role will include:

• Leading culture transformation and workforce capability programmes across a multi-site organisation, with measurable impact on engagement, retention and performance
• Designing and mobilising a scalable leadership development framework and future looking workforce strategy, translating strategic ambition into deliverable programmes
• Driving employee experience and engagement initiatives, including survey design, insight reporting and intervention measurement, working at pace with the Executive Management Team

• Significant senior-level experience in learning and organisational development, culture change or employee experience, with a proven track record of translating strategy into implemented programmes
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, procuring and delivering leadership development and workforce capability programmes for senior cohorts, including blended and digital learning approaches
• Experience leading culture-change and behavioural-development programmes in complex organisations, with evidence of influencing senior leaders and staff representatives
• Knowledge of apprenticeship funding and the Growth and Skills Levy, with the ability to assess how funding can be applied to learning, capability and talent-pipeline priorities in an education or employer-led learning context
• Proven capability in leading and managing people, delivering complex programmes at pace, and producing Board and Executive Management Team-ready papers, business cases and options analysis
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional standing, with evidence of continuing professional development
• Coaching, organisational development or learning-design qualification
• Up-to-date knowledge of contemporary learning and organisational development practice, with the ability to apply it within an education context