L&Q
Organisational Development Partner
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Organisational Development Partner
Contract Type: 12-month FTC, Full Time 35 hours per week
Salary: starting from £48,691 per annum (London weighted salary) or £42,668 per annum (Regional salary)
Grade: 9
Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford
Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing Date: 17th August 2026
Interviews: to be held in person during w/c 24th August 2026
Role Profile: OD Partner Role Profile -.docx
Benefits:
- Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
- 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
- Westfield Health Cash Plan
- Non-contributory life assurance
- Up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
- Lifestyle benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme
- And many more…
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview process with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months
Join our Organisation Development & Change Team at L&Q!
At L&Q, we're committed to helping our colleagues thrive so that we can continue delivering outstanding services to residents. As we continue to evolve and transform our organisation, we're looking for an experienced Organisation Development Partner to play a key role in shaping our people, leadership, and learning strategies. Reporting to the OD Manager, you will be given a wide-ranging and challenging remit. Your principal focus will be to deliver an effective organisation development and learning strategy that meets the current and future needs of the business.
Your Impact in the Role:
As an Organisation Development Partner, you'll help drive the development of our people and organisation, ensuring colleagues have the skills, capability, and support they need to succeed. In this role, you will:
- Identify organisational capability, leadership and learning needs to support business priorities and transformation initiatives.
- Partner with OD, Change, HR, and Learning colleagues to design and deliver practical, impactful development solutions.
- Lead and support organisation development projects from design through to implementation and evaluation.
- Create and curate engaging learning resources, development tools, and interventions that build capability across the organisation.
- Work closely with project and change teams to ensure learning and development activity is aligned to business change and successfully embedded.
- Coach and support leaders to strengthen leadership capability, manage change effectively, and build high-performing teams.
- Manage relationships with external providers and delivery partners to ensure high-quality outcomes.
- Measure effectiveness and gather feedback to demonstrate impact, drive continuous improvement, and ensure value is delivered.
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By building capability and supporting organisational effectiveness, you'll help ensure L&Q remains a great place to work while continuing to deliver excellent outcomes for residents.
What You'll Bring:
- Experience of conducting learning needs analysis, translating concepts into practical solutions, and identifying appropriate learning interventions, procuring training, delivering training, and evaluating learning interventions against key performance indicators and strategic objectives.
- Outstanding consultancy and relationship management skills proven within a similar role/OD/HR context to analyse and respond to emerging needs, taking into account the impacts on operational delivery and ensuring added value.
- Previous experience of implementing large OD projects (full life cycle).
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with HR professionals, L&D/OD teams, and business stakeholders to build effective working relationships and communicate with people in a constructive and professional manner to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Ability to self-manage with a high level of energy and flexibility to manage a varied and demanding workload, both independently and by working collaboratively with others, negotiating assistance where appropriate.
- Outstanding facilitation skills enabling participants to engage with material and learn effectively.
- (Desirable) CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent).
- (Desirable) Coaching qualification and/or accreditation in psychometric tools such as Insights Discovery, MBTI, or Belbin.
- (Desirable) Experience using assessment and development tools to build leadership and organisational capability.
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About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high-quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness, and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East, and North West of England.
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business, and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and at all levels, when representing L&Q.
L&Q strongly believes a diverse and inclusive workforce is important, and inclusion is part of our core values and everyday working practices. We make hiring decisions based on your experiences, skills, and merits, and we are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer, and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace. Click here to read more.
At L&Q, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.
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