Senior Organisational Development Practitioner

2 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
HR and Recruiting
Canonical

Canonical

Canonical provides secure and reliable open source solutions, specializing in commercial support for Ubuntu. They are the company behind the popular Linux OS, Ubuntu, and lead a global community of 200,000 contributors.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2004
$10M raised

Description

  • Coach leaders to raise their management effectiveness against a clear standard of excellence.
  • Handle difficult conversations and help leaders follow through on feedback commitments.
  • Translate 360 feedback into concrete, sustained behavior change.
  • Diagnose how an organization is led during early engagement and own the improvement plan.
  • Support and help define new ways of working across a globally distributed company.
  • Develop and supervise practitioners working in the field to improve their craft.
  • Set and uphold Canonical’s coaching and organizational development standards.
  • Feed insights from field work back into the company’s management-excellence approach.

Requirements

  • Deep, hands-on coaching and organizational development experience with real leaders and teams.
  • A track record of measurably changing leader behavior with specific examples.
  • Credibility with senior leaders and directors.
  • Ability to work effectively inside another organization without formal authority.
  • A clear philosophy on when coaching is appropriate versus when a role or fit change is the right call.
  • An exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Sincere personal motivation aligned with Canonical’s mission.
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times per year for internal events.
  • Management consulting background (nice to have).
  • Experience coaching in a distributed, fast-moving, technical organization (nice to have).
  • Experience building competency or development frameworks (nice to have).
  • Experience designing and running workshops or training sessions, in person and online (nice to have).
  • Learning-design judgment for development materials (nice to have).
  • Talent-development experience, valued but secondary to coaching and consulting craft (nice to have).

Benefits

  • Distributed remote work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
  • $2,000 annual personal learning and development budget.
  • Annual compensation review.
  • Performance-driven annual bonus.
  • Annual holiday leave.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Travel support including Priority Pass and upgrades for long-haul company events.

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