Transformation, Change and Organisational Development Partner

Join us in creating a better world for animals

What you will be doing

• Designing and delivering organisational development interventions that strengthen organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and team performance.
• Partnering with leaders and People Partners to diagnose organisational challenges and identify practical, evidence-based solutions.
• Leading workforce and succession planning approaches and developing skills and capability frameworks aligned to future organisational priorities.
• Supporting organisational design initiatives, career pathways and internal talent mobility approaches.
• Embedding practical change management approaches and supporting organisational readiness and change impact assessment activities.
• Coaching leaders and People teams to strengthen confidence and capability in leading change.
• Using workforce and organisational data to identify trends, risks and capability priorities, and to inform organisational planning and decision-making.
• Collaborating across Talent, Transformation and People teams to ensure organisational capability approaches are integrated, scalable and sustainable.

What we are looking for

• Experience in organisational development, change and/or transformation within a complex or international organisation.
• Experience leading or supporting complex organisational change initiatives.
• Strong change management capability, including planning, stakeholder engagement and implementation.
• Experience designing and embedding organisational frameworks, including workforce planning and skills frameworks.
• Strong organisational diagnosis and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate insight into practical solutions.
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work credibly with senior leaders.
• Excellent analytical and data-literacy skills and the ability to generate insights that support decision-making.
• Experience collaborating across global and cross-functional teams and working effectively in complex, fast-changing environments.

Benefits

• All staff are entitled to 24 days of annual leave per calendar year (from January 1 to December 31). In addition, there are 2 Global Wellbeing midyear closure days and 3 additional days to be taken at the end of the calendar year, as determined by World Animal Protection. For part-time staff, holiday entitlement is prorated accordingly
• An increase to annual leave through length of service - 1 additional days leave after each years' service up to max 5 days.
• Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
• A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:
• Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10days)
• Carers/Dependent Leave (3 days)
• Disability Leave (10 days)
• Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
• Pregnancy Loss Leave (10 days)
• Fertility Treatment Leave (5 days per cycle, up to max 3 cycles)
• Gender Affirming Medical Leave (20 days)
• Companion animal bereavement Leave (2 days)
• Pawternity’ leave (2 days)
• World Animal Protection have a generous Pension Scheme – World Animal Protection contribute 6% and the employee must contribute a minimum of 4%.
• Employees are entitled to 2 days Volunteer Leave (pro-rata) a year to volunteer for a cause that matters to them
• Full time staff work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday. Actual working hours are flexible however as a global organisation working hours would need to fit with the requirements of the role. In most circumstances, employees can start between 8am and 10 am and finish between 4pm and 6pm however there may be occasions for the need to work outside these hours
• All World Animal Protection employees receive Life Assurance. Under the Death in Service benefit scheme the employee will receive 3 x annual salary to go to their nominated beneficiary (only applicable if you are in the pension scheme)
• We offer excellent Family Friendly Policies – enhanced Gender-Neutral Parental Leave for new parents
• Flexible working options including compressed hours
• Interest-free season ticket loans are available to all staff after 6 months service, the cost of which is deducted from your salary over the course of the year.
• Cycle to work scheme, a tax-free way to purchase your bike, the cost of which is deducted from your salary over the course of a year.
• We offer a free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) from an independent provider of employee support services. The EAP is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is accessible by telephone, email or online and is available in many languages. The service is there to help with a wide range of work, family and personal issues.
• We cover the cost of an annual eye test.
• Where job vacancies occur, we encourage internal applications, we have a good track record of offering existing staff promotions.
• We are committed to ensuring our employees have the appropriate qualifications and skills to fulfil their job role and progress their careers. World Animal Protection invests in employee’s development by offering opportunities to undertake studying for relevant qualifications paying professional membership fees and agreeing suitable study leave.