Senior OD Practitioner

Senior OD Practitioner

Grade: Senior Executive Officer
Salary: £46,677- £54,957
Pension: 28.97% of salary (RoS contribution)
Annual leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent.
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns; compressed hours, term time working or part time working on a case-by-case basis, depending on the role and departmental requirements.
Location: Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). Given the collaborative and facilitative nature of this role, regular in-person presence across our locations is expected-typically fortnightly, though this may vary-to support workshops, stakeholder engagement, and on-site delivery.
Department: People and Change
Directorate: People and Operational Services
Role Reports to: Head of OD and Learning
Closing date: 13th July 2025 at 23:59
Number of vacancies: 1

About Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. We hold the answer to the question, "Who owns Scotland?" We're a modern, digital organisation and our success relies on building a diverse team of dedicated, skilled and motivated people.

The role:
Based within the wider People and Change function, this role consults with internal stakeholders to understand the people impacts of change and to plan accordingly. The role sits alongside business leaders to support them to maximise the contribution of our people to drive organisational outcomes and achieve their corporate objectives. The Senior OD Practitioner contributes expertise in organisational design, culture, ways of working, and people-performance systems to support successful adaption to the changing demands of the external environment. The role supports continuous improvement within the organisation by influencing effective people-processes, people management and leadership.

Main Duties:

Organisational Development and Design

•To align with and provide OD support to business functions and/or directorates to help them achieve business goals and corporate objectives through:
(a) the contribution of your perspective as an OD professional to influence inspiring, values-led local leadership
(b) your guidance to the local leadership line to continually encourage good people management practice
(c) design and delivery of OD interventions indicated through your diagnostic and research findings to drive performance improvements and
(d) implementation of changes at functional level derived through commissions of the People and Change function via RoS' governance bodies
(e) design and delivery of strategic People Plans

To work as a senior OD professional within the People and Change function in service of the capability of the entire function as we seek to fulfil our collective outcomes. Responsibilities to this role include:

•Leading/participating on mission teams and delivery groups in response to briefs from governance groups
•Participating in the life of the broader People & Change function with active involvement in whole-function events, comms, engagement planning and learning or of asks of the function such as input to BPL or to governance processes such as audits
•Contributing to the OD Team's collective bank of artefacts and tools
•Sharing learning across the team and wider function
•Pursuing opportunities to learn and enhance professional practice

Developing others
•Advise, coach and mentor other practitioners within and beyond the OD function about the practical application of OD/change management tools and techniques.
•Advise, coach and influence key stakeholders across the organisation on the benefits and positive impact of embracing and embedding an OD approach.

Personal performance and development
•Prioritise workload effectively, ensuring enough time is given to priority work.
•Pay attention to and act on feedback of your peers and leaders.
•Be responsible for continuous self-learning and development.

This job is for you if you want
•Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
•Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders.
•Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
•Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
•Diversity and Inclusion: We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
•Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.

To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video

Essential Criteria - Skills and Attributes for Success

Experience:
We will assess you against the following Experience and Technical skills during the application and assessment process:

•Experience of working closely with operational functions, supporting process improvement as well productivity and performance
•Experience of carrying out organisational design diagnostics and implementing resultant structural change
•Understanding of principles of change management and experience of transformational change and planning activities
•Understanding of organisational culture and experience of cultural diagnostic tools
•Experience of organisational culture change efforts
•Demonstrated ability to gather, interpret, and present complex people and organisational data to inform decision-making, evaluate impact, and shape evidence-based OD strategies.
•Experience in analysing operational data sets-including KPIs, productivity metrics, and workflow efficiency-to identify trends, diagnose performance issues, and support evidence-based decision-making that drives continuous improvement.
•Understanding and experience of enhancing the effectiveness of people performance systems
•Expertise in people management practice Experience of practicing OD within a complex stakeholder environment
•Understanding and experience of creating strategic plans, considering all OD people components, such as engagement, performance and workforce planning
•Experience of diagnosing and implementing org design changes, aligned with strategic direction and workforce planning.
•Experience of working with digital transformations, supporting the implementation of technology and assessing the impact on colleagues
•Experience of working within a partnering model, supporting leaders, managers and teams to deliver interventions and achieve their corporate objectives.

Technical
•CIPD qualified or other relevant organisational development/design/change qualification or knowledge and experience.
•Degree level or equivalent academic attainment in HR, OD or another closely related subject.

Behaviours/Competencies
At application and assessment stage, you will be scored against the below Behaviours.

Changing and improving
•Communicating and influencing
•Working Together
•Managing a Quality Service

Stage one - Application Process
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete the online application form.

You will need to submit:
1.A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the technical and experience criteria (max 4 pages).
2.A Statement of suitability ( words) detailing how you meet the behaviours for the role. Please use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) in your examples.
3.Your CV and Supporting statement should be submitted as a single MS Word file.

Please note:
•If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on Experience/Technical criteria.
•We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
•We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
•Applications that are not accompanied by CVs will not be scored or statements over 1000 words will not be considered.
•We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action & Result) and suggest preparing your answers using software such as MS Word or Google Docs, and then uploading the file.
•We strongly advise you review our policy on responsible use of AI in the application process. RoS may check answers with an AI detection tool and will contact you for a pre-screening call to verify your responses.
•Applications and appointments are subject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.

Stage two - assessment
If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview which will take place in our Edinburgh Office (Meadowbank House,153 London Road, Edinburgh EH8 7AU) and will include the following:

•Behaviour based interview
•Role-play exercise (no prior preparation required)
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