Associate Director of Organisational Development (Talent)

Ref Number

C14-00047

Professional Expertise

Administration and Business Support

Department

Human Resources Division (C14)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

See advert text

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Type

Hybrid (20% – 80% on site)

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

05-Nov-2023

UCL has been awarded the University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.

Join UCL’s Dynamic Organisational Development and lead our Talent Team

About Us: UCL’s Organisational Development (OD) team empowers 16,000+ colleagues across various roles, including academic, research, teaching, and professional services. As a central unit within HR, we drive UCL’s 2022-27 strategy by establishing the right learning and talent structures, systems and processes. Our mission is to equip colleagues with crucial personal, professional, and leadership skills to be able to be the best they can at what they do.

We’re deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, participating in initiatives like Athena SWAN and Race Equality. Equitable opportunities are at the core of our talent, learning, and leadership practices.

About the Talent Team: Our Talent Team, part of Organisational Development, plays a pivotal role in developing and embedding systems and solutions for diverse talent development at UCL. Our responsibilities span:

• Early and mid-career apprenticeship schemes.
• Career pathways.
• Annual performance cycles.
• Behavioural frameworks
• Future-focused initiatives like early career and graduate programs, talent pools, and succession planning.

About the Role:

This new senior role offers a unique chance to join UCL at an exciting time and to make a real impact on how we support, develop, and retain our colleagues. You will:

• Provide thought leadership and practical solutions for talent strategy, methodology, and tools.
• Shape UCL’s talent, performance development, and approach to staff retention.
• Bring experience in talent ecosystem development within large, decentralized organizations.
• Align OD and talent workstreams tthe broader organizational strategy.
• Navigate a complex internal landscape and engage with diverse stakeholders.

You will lead the implementation of an organisational-wide digital performance and talent platform, revolutionizing staff support and development.

Reporting to the Director of OD, you will closely collaborate with senior members of the OD Leadership team, including the other new Head of OD (Learning and Leadership). As a Grade 10 leader, you’ll actively participate in a dynamic integrated professional services leadership community.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Vision and Strategy:

• Lead a collaborative approach to transform how UCL colleagues develop their careers.
• Use data to create innovative solutions for identifying, developing, and retaining talent.
• Develop a digital performance and talent platform for a superior colleague experience.
• Craft organizational-wide solutions adaptable to local needs.
• Collaborate with the Research Culture Team and UCL EDI

High-Quality Delivery:

• Implement projects with a focus on consulting, collaborating, and partnering.
• Work closely with the Change and Improvement Team to engage key stakeholders
• Oversee approaches to data collection and use credible data for decisions and success stories.
• Support faculties and departments in embedding outcomes, driving change, and demonstrating ROI.
• Develop organisational wide solutions that are applicable at the local level.
• Work with faculties and departments to ensure they have access to staff development opportunities that meet the particular needs of their area

Project Management:

• Provide thought leadership and oversight of the performance and talent system rollout.
• Work with the Talent team to align apprenticeship schemes with UCL’s strategy.
• Further embed the career & development toolkit.
• Work with the Research Culture team and others to develop existing / new behavioural frameworks
• Continue to develop career pathways.

Leadership and Management:

• Offer strategic and inclusive leadership to the Talent team
• Collaborate with OD teams to develop integrated solutions.
• Identify and report critical success measures.
• Manage budget

Salary: £77k to £85k

Grade: 10

Hybrid Working

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

•Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

•Immigration loan

•Relocation scheme for certain posts

•On-Site nursery

•On-site gym

•Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

•Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

•Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

If you possess most of the required skills but are missing some, then we encourage you to apply.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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