This role is open to current employees within People and Culture at the University of Leeds only.

Salary: Grade 9 (£56,021 - £64,914 p.a. depending upon experience) 

This role will be based on the university campus with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you a highly skilled change specialist with experience of developing and implementing solutions to support delivery of complex transformational change across a variety of service areas?   Do you have significant change management experience in a large and complex organisation at a senior level.  Are you able to provide strategic support and professional change management expertise and leadership across the University?

This is a key role, providing leadership in change management across the University.

You will strengthen our service leadership and delivery, enhancing both institutional and individual performance, and directly support the delivery of the University’s strategic priorities through your innovative approach to organisational development and change management.

To achieve our aims, members of the People and Culture Directorate leadership team work together to define and deliver our shared goals, targeting resource across the service to meet internal priorities and external requirements.  Together, the team ensures a University wide focus on activities necessary to enhance organisational effectiveness, such as employee engagement, change management, talent management, leadership capacity and capability, and organisational design and culture. To enable delivery, a key role of the team is to ensure effective working and behaviours across the directorate with an element of fluidity between the leadership roles.

At a University wide and a local level you will create a culture of trusted partnership, combining strategic leadership with specialist expertise, and will strengthen the professional support and challenge to leaders.

Strong leadership skills and the ability to effectively manage and develop your team of professional colleagues to deliver a high quality and strategically aligned service are key to success within this role.

What we offer in return

And much more!  

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Briony Sutcliffe, Director of People Change and Engagement

Email: [email protected]