Organisational Development Specialist

Main responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of OD campaigns throughout the organisation.
• Drive high performance at South East Water by taking ownership of the performance process, implementing improvements, demonstrating progress, and ensuring alignment with the performance management roadmap, including the planned introduction of performance-related rewards within four years.
• Design and execute colleague engagement surveys, including conducting analysis, presenting results, and facilitating action planning with the business.
• Collaborate with HRBPs and leadership to develop robust succession plans, with a focus on business-critical roles, developing technical experts, and identifying future leaders.
• Work with the OD Manager to ensure OD initiatives support the wider achievement of the four strategic focus areas of the people plan.
• Working closely with HRBP’s and managers, engage and understand all requirements to ensure that all development programmes and organisational change projects support the strategic direction of the organisation both now and in the future.
• Acting as internal subject matter experts for the purpose of designing, conducting and evaluating training content, methods, materials and programme scheduling. Building talent management capability across the organisation through dedicated area of specialism.
• Engaging directly with relevant business leaders to ensure that the identification of learning need is appropriately understood and scoped, designed with the end user in mind and provides measures of success after roll out.
• Acts as a partner to client-facing HR teams, supporting the initiation, delivery and providing communications for effective roll-out of programmes.
• Leads continuous improvement and ongoing delivery of programs in conjunction with HR information systems (eg: TAP) to drive system improvements to enhance the employee experience.
• Accountable for the project management and delivery to agreed timescales of area of expertise.
• Understands trends, new technology and best practices in the training and OD area and suggests solutions to enhance existing talent management practices.
• Deliver to the L&D budget and identify any potential cost savings to ensure maximum value.
• Be a role model, inspiring and galvanising others around learning solutions, ensuring learning is embedded and delivers ambitious goals, outcomes and timelines.

Skills / Qualifications / Experience

• Expected to be qualified to CIPD level 7 or equivalent.
• Experience in working within an Organisational Development team, including experience in working with multiple stakeholders to deliver innovative and pragmatic development schemes to a diverse business.
• Have strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to interact with individuals and across all organisational levels.
• The ability to work as part of a team with excellent collaboration skills across other functions and with business partners.
• Be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities including good time management and taking accountability for tasks and issues.
• Excellent trouble‑shooting and problem‑solving skills.
• A valid driving licence.

Skills / Qualifications / Experience

• Any additional learning and development qualifications, such as Insights or other personality profiling tools.

Employees are required to be flexible and to be prepared to perform duties and other tasks within their capabilities. The nature of our business is such that the contents of any job profile are subject to change from time to time.

We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.

• Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
• 5 weeks…