Organisational Development & Talent Manager (part-time 21 hours)

Job Description - Organisational Development & Talent Manager (part-time 21 hours) (047224)

Organisation

DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND TALENT

Job

Organisational Development/Talent

Position Type - Part Time

Hours - Part-time 21 hours per week
Location: Southwark, London
Contract: Permanent

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

The closing date for applications is Monday 20th January 2025 @ 23:59

Overview

This role is a great opportunity to work in an exciting area of HR and be part of a team where you will be able to see your work have a tangible impact on colleagues across the business. You will work on a range of tasks and projects pan-TfL alongside other specialist colleagues who are passionate about developing and supporting everyone to achieve their work ambitions. You will play a big part in helping TfL to develop practical solutions that enable us to build a colleague empowered performance and talent management culture, underpinned by great inclusive leadership capability.

As an Organisational Development & Talent Manager you will report to the OD Lead and be part of the Chief People Officer directorate. In this role you will be responsible for applying expertise to the design and development of practical initiatives, frameworks, and practices that support building a high-performance culture that enables our people to thrive and innovate in order to meet current and future business requirements.

Key Accountabilities

As an Organisational Development & Talent Manager you will be accountable for:

• Lead and project manage the successful delivery of TfL’s Learning and Development approach working with a range of stakeholders across the business.
• Contribute to embedding our approach to performance and talent management, particularly for non-leadership colleagues.
• Work with a range of stakeholders to develop and embed development and career pathways across a range of professions.
• Promote and embed our mentoring offerings.
• Ensure our innovative organisational development initiatives deliver measurable business objectives and drive a higher performing organisation, ensuring integration of structure, capability, systems, processes, and culture.
• Interpret available internal and external data and use outputs from the analysis to identify a range of organisational development interventions.
• Manage the development and execution of diagnostic tools to assess organisational capability and explore action to inform talent identification/leadership development e.g. Readiness Model, Career Conversations.
• Establish and maintain networks with external organisations to ensure up-to-date knowledge of assessment trends/initiatives.
• Support and embed TfL’s organisational values within the wider delivery of TfL's colleague strategy and approaches to Talent.
• Contribute to making TfL a great place to work for everyone.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience – All essential unless otherwise stated

• Experience of developing behavioural and/or competency frameworks and supporting the embedding of these frameworks to drive organisational performance.
• Experience of delivering successful organisational development policy and practices including talent in a large, complex and highly unionised organisation.
• Experience of development of organisational development interventions to improve capability, behaviours, and culture.
• Experience in an equality and inclusion environment in a complex organisation with a proven ability to bring about changes to support an equality and inclusion agenda.
• Knowledge of external developments and best practice in organisational development and leadership development.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Ability to gather data from a variety of sources and provide effective insight and analysis to inform credible conclusions and influence business units and the people strategy.
• Ability to apply organisational development theory into practical applications that align and integrate with our strategies, systems, practices, and other organisational goals.
• Ability to develop and embed behavioural and/or competency frameworks.
• Ability to manage mid-level projects and apply expertise to provide business advice to managers and executives.
• Possess facilitation skills to support learning interventions with a range of stakeholders and audiences.
• Holds MSc in Organisational Psychology/Behaviour or equivalent is desirable.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantees an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process

Please apply using your CV and a one-page covering letter detailing your motivation in applying for the role and how your skills and experience will help you succeed in the role. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.

Excellent benefits include

• Final salary pension scheme.
• Free travel for you on the TfL network.
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest-free loan or discounted flexi ticket.
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays.
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme.
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers.