Senior Specialist (Organisation Development)

About the role

NHG's Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) is looking for a Senior Specialist (Organisation Development) to support system-level change and workforce transformation. You will help create impact at the systems level so that healthcare can respond with agility to lead change, aiming for population health, healthcare sustainability and value-based care. As Deputy Director / Senior Specialist, you will lead strategic transformation initiatives and run projects with healthcare professional groups and CHI Academies.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct organisational assessments to identify themes, performance gaps, structural issues and areas for improvement, analysing qualitative and quantitative data including stakeholder feedback.
• Turn findings into practical recommendations that activate change and improve organisational effectiveness, team performance and ways of working.
• Support the planning and delivery of change initiatives, covering leadership alignment, stakeholder engagement, communications, capability building and adoption.
• Partner with leaders and healthcare professional groups to advance workforce transformation and other CHI priorities.
• Support initiatives that give healthcare professionals more agency through work redesign and new skills, and contribute to the CHI Workforce Accelerator.
• Work with NHG Health and CHI leaders and other healthcare stakeholders to identify future care models and build system-level capacity.
• Manage several workstreams at once while keeping quality and detail in mind.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Sociology, Psychology, Business Administration or a related field.
• At least 12 years of relevant experience in organisation development, employee engagement or learning and development.
• Ability to engage across all levels of the system, from leadership to the ground, and to design and run interventions from small group conversations to large-group sessions.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage diverse stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced setting, handling ambiguity and ramping up quickly in a time-bound role.