People & Organisations Consultant Solihull, England
Job description
Closing Date: 21st April
Why Arup?
Across the built environment and infrastructure sector, large and complex organisations are delivering critical national services, from rail networks to energy grids or water systems. It’s a sector that values high performance while often having to overcome institutional and organisational friction. It’s also a sector that has to balance commercial imperatives with the need to meet government targets, in an environment where contractual commitments keep evolving.
Our People and Organisations team are specialists in helping these bodies to find better ways of working, leading to a shared culture within a joint venture or public/private partnership.
With so many intersecting global trends now assailing business – from digital transformation to flexible working to the accelerating transition to net zero operations – our team helps clients to define the best way forward and achieve the desired change and improvement.
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The Opportunity
As a Consultant in our People and Organisations practice, you apply in-depth knowledge and specialist skills in culture & organisational change to support our clients with their sustainable development transformations. In this fast-moving environment a ‘typical’ day is difficult to describe. Over time, though, we anticipate the gist of the role to be one of managing discrete packages of work to clients, contributing to bids and helping to develop service offerings/thought leadership/community of practice/research within Arup.
You will support areas such as culture, behaviour, operating models, capabilities, leadership development, stakeholder engagement and governance are common in this work. Major themes at the moment are Carbon Net-Zero and Circular Economy, but this is an ever-changing landscape.
You will play a key role in developing our growing sustainable development transformation practice – by being both client-facing and executing hands-on delivery, while also contributing within Arup to shape our offer.
Is this role right for you?
- You will ideally be Chartered or working towards or considering becoming Chartered with a relevant institute such as British Psychology Society (BPS), Association for Business Psychology (ABP), Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)
- You will have experience in a consulting or in-house environment and driving culture & organisational change. leading and shaping proposals, possibly within the UK business sector or a professional services industry and working collaboratively with others – motivating them to deliver what's needed within the proposal programme and budget
- You will want to deploy organisational development theories and methodologies (models, diagnostics, strategies, plans, recommendations, solution development and deployment through change management approach, workshops, evaluations, reports
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Rewards and Benefits
We care about you and want you to perform at your best, which is why we offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in our sector.
As a member organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme (payments are dependent on the firm’s financial performance).
We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.
Different people, shared values.
At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.
At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks - BAME, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women - provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference - discover more about life at Arup here.
At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.
At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.
Learn how our Work Unbound initiative is giving all our members greater flexibility in deciding how and where they work
Our Application Process
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