Head of Organisational Development & Culture
Michael Page
Uxbridge · posted 21 August 2026
Salary
£55,000 – £65,000 a year
Location
Uxbridge, England
Category
Human Resources, Management & Operations
A senior Organisational Development and Culture role leading learning, workforce capability, culture transformation and employee experience across a large, multi-site education organisation. You will shape and mobilise the people strategy needed to support ambitious organisational growth and future workforce requirements.
A not-for-profit/ education organisation.
Description
- Lead the development of a long-term workforce capability strategy
- Align workforce capability with future organisational and service requirements
- Lead cultural diagnostics and organisation-wide culture transformation
- Develop and embed a behavioural framework aligned to organisational values
- Design a scalable leadership development framework and programme
- Lead workforce skills audits and develop a structured CPD framework
- Develop the employee experience and engagement strategy
- Lead engagement surveys, insight, action planning and impact measurement
- Develop approaches to apprenticeship funding and workforce development investment
- Produce senior-level business cases, recommendations and implementation plans
Profile
A successful Head of Organisational Development & Culture should have:
- Senior experience across OD, L&D, culture and employee experience
- Strong track record of translating strategy into practical programmes
- Strong employee engagement and employee listening expertise
- Comfortable influencing senior executives and multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong programme management and implementation capability
- Able to produce high-quality business cases and executive-level papers
- Understanding of apprenticeship funding and workforce development
- Credible, collaborative and commercially minded people leader
Job Offer
- Salary ranging from £55,000 to £65,000, dependent on the level of experience
- 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
- Senior leadership role with significant strategic influence
- Opportunity to shape a major workforce and culture agenda
- Responsibility for leading specialist OD/L&D and employee experience teams
- Hybrid working can be considered, but this is important:
- Candidates need to be comfortable travelling between sites.
- Opportunity to make a significant, measurable impact on organisational capability, culture and employee experience