Change Consultant

Temporary 12 weeks (with probable extension)

An exciting opportunity has arisen with a central/west London council.

1.JOB PURPOSE:

To provide a wide range of support to senior leadership teams and their services to design, plan and deliver change, turning political aspirations and organisational imperatives into desired outcomes in the most cost- effective way.

Our team are involved in a wide range of work, from classical business analysis through to designing and implementing OD interventions

2. DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

Defining transformational change requirements

-In collaboration with the business, assist and drive the analysis and diagnosis required to understand the challenge. This may include:

Trend /data, themes analysis & horizon scanning – incorporating previous experiences / lessons from within the organisation and from other organisations and responding to government policy.

Supporting and Delivering Change

-Diagnose, develop and deliver targeted interventions both within services and across councils to help them meet their aims, objectives and goals.

-Provide hands on consultancy support to those delivering change. Diagnose, design suitable approaches and interventions to support the realisation of targeted outcomes.

-Work with stakeholders to ensure effective needs identification, prioritisation of support and consistent communication of activities and benefits.

-Build line manager change capability in using engagement in good practice approaches to managing change – ‘on-the-job’ / intact teams e.g. providing specific packages of support

Supporting & Delivering Portfolios

-Facilitating and contributing to the development of ideas and converting these into business cases to support the decision making and benefits management processes.

-Aiding in the design of suitable approaches and interventions to support the delivery of portfolios and realisation of targeted outcomes.

-Work with influence to help create compelling cases for relevant decision makers to adopt recommendations.

Developing leadership capability

-Help design and provide a range of development interventions which meet leaders and managers needs in close liaison with HR – ensure that this includes development for current and as well as future roles

-Supporting managers’ development re change capability and project management

-Help co-create as appropriate new learning and development activities to up-skill managers and leaders to develop themselves and others and become better at learning.

Business Planning

-Interact with directors and senior managers (who run and manage service planning in line with the framework) provide advice, guidance and facilitation as required.