Head of Organisational Design and Development

Job summary

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to establish and lead a new Organisation Design & Development function within COPFS, shaping how we approach organisational design, development and effectiveness across Scotland’s prosecution service.

You’ll work with senior leaders to diagnose complex organisational challenges, influence future operating models and develop evidence-based approaches across structure, culture, capability and ways of working. You’ll also build OD&D capability across the organisation and demonstrate the impact and value of interventions.

If you’re an experienced OD&D professional looking for the opportunity to build a new function, shape its direction and make a lasting organisational impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information:

If you would be interested to learn more about this role, please see our application pack on our website for further job details, salary information and assessment guidance.

Job description

Key Accountabilities

Establish and lead the OD&D Function
• Establish and develop the new OD&D function, defining a clear, accessible service offer aligned to organisational priorities.
• Develop the frameworks, methodologies and professional standards required to deliver a consistent and evidence based OD&D service.
• Build understanding of the role and value of OD&D, ensuring leaders and teams know when and how to access specialist support.
• Shape priorities and resources to establish OD&D as a credible, sustainable and outcome focused organisational capability.

Lead Organisation Design
• Provide strategic organisation design expertise and advice to support organisational change, transformation and the development of target and future operating models.
• Lead evidence-based diagnosis and design, considering structures, roles, accountabilities, governance, spans and layers, process, capability and organisational interfaces.
• Work with leaders to understand the underlying organisational challenge before determining whether structural change or alternative interventions are required.
• Develop practical organisation design approaches, tools and guidance that enable consistent and sustainable design decisions across COPFS.

Organisation Development and Effectiveness
• Lead the development and application of OD approaches and strengthen organisational, team and individual effectiveness.
• Diagnose complex organisational challenges and identify appropriate interventions across culture, leadership, capability, collaboration and ways of working.
• Support leaders and teams through complex organisational change, ensuring interventions consider the wider organisational system rather than issues in isolation.
• Embed evidence-based OD practice that enables sustainable

Build Strategic Partnerships and Organisational Capability
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing expert advice, constructive challenge and practical support on complex organisational issues.
• Partner across People, Transformation and Change and corporate functions to align OD&D with wider organisational priorities.
• Build leaders confidence and capability to apply OD&D principles and address organisational challenge.

Benefits Realisation and Impact
• Establish effective approaches to benefits realisation and evaluation, with clear outcomes identified from the outset.
• Use qualitive and quantitative evidence to measure the impact and effectiveness of OD&D interventions.
• Demonstrate how OD&D contributes to organisational performance, capability and strategic outcomes.

Lead & Develop The OD&D Team
• Lead and develop a high performing specialist team, setting clear direction, priorities and professional standards.
• Build professional capability through coaching, development, knowledge sharing application of OD&D priorities.

Provide Organisational Insight and Drive Continuous Improvement
• Use organisational insight, workforce data and stakeholder feedback to identify emerging challenges and inform OD&D priorities.
• Apply external research and professional practice to continuously develop COPFS OD&D approaches.

Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and others may be required.

Person specification

We are looking for a strategic, curious and credible OD&D leader who can see the organisation as a whole and understand the connections between people, structures, processes, technology, culture and organisational outcomes.

You will bring a thoughtful and diagnostic approach, with the confidence to ask challenging questions, constructively test assumptions and help senior leaders identify the underlying issue before moving to solutions. You will combine professional expertise with pragmatism, translating OD&D theory and evidence into accessible approaches that work in a complex organisational environment.

Collaborative and inclusive in your approach, you will build trusted relationships across professional and organisational boundaries and empower leaders and teams to develop their own capability rather than creating dependency on specialist support. You will be comfortable operating with ambiguity and competing priorities, bringing resilience, sound judgement and persistence to complex organisational challenges.

Above all, you will be focused on outcomes and continuous improvement, with the curiosity to test new approaches, learn from evidence and demonstrate how OD&D activity is making a meaningful difference.

Qualifications

Degree level qualification in Organisation Design or equivalent experience in Organisational Development.

Significant experience of leading complex organisation design and development activity at a strategic level, including contributing to major organisational change, transformation or target operating model development.

Establishing or developing an organisation design, organisation development or organisational effectiveness capability or service, building its credibility and working with senior leaders to diagnose organisational challenges, provide constructive challenge and develop effective solutions.

Leading and developing specialist professional capability and delivering complex organisational interventions collaboratively across People/HR and wider corporate functions.

Memberships

Chartered Member of CIPD or agree to work towards it and achieve membership within the first two years of taking up post.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £62,111, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service contributes £17,993 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

We offer an excellent range of benefits which include:

• • 25 days paid holiday + 11.5 public and privilege holidays (rising to 30 days paid holiday after 2 years).
  • Generous Civil Service Pension employer contribution, on average over 28.97% of your pay
  • Flexible working hours and family friendly approach to work.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loans.
  • Employee Wellbeing Support with Mental Health First Aiders and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Please see our application pack on our website for full details.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo an enhanced (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Robert Harvey
• Email : robert.harvey@copfs.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@copfs.gov.uk

Further information

Please see our application pack on our website for full details.

https://www.copfs.gov.uk/about-copfs/careers/