Senior Organisational Development Practitioner
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Job description
A senior organisational development role in Canonical's Talent Development team, coaching leaders and diagnosing and improving how organisations are led. The practitioner works from the central team and embedded inside leaders' organisations, and also develops other practitioners in the field.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA, Americas
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Coaching leaders to visibly raise their game against a clear standard of management excellence
- Landing the hard conversations, because you coach leaders to make them happen
- Turning 360 feedback into real, followed-through commitments, not a report that gets filed
- Leaving an organisation you take on visibly better led, off a sharp first-weeks diagnosis and a plan you own and drive
- Contributing to defining and implementing new ways of working across our globally distributed company
- Developing the practitioners in the field so they get visibly better at their craft under your supervision
- Setting the bar for how coaching and organisational development is done at Canonical: owning what exceptional looks like, proving the methods in the field, and holding the practice to them
- Sharpening the management-excellence standard itself across Canonical, by feeding back what you learn in the field
What we're looking for
- Deep, hands-on coaching and organisational-development practice with real leaders and teams, not just programme design
- A track record of measurably changing how leaders behave, with specific examples you can talk through
- Credibility: you can walk into a room of directors and be taken seriously
- Effectiveness operating inside someone else's organisation without formal authority
- A clear and honest philosophy of development: you know where coaching helps, and you are candid about where a role or fit decision is the right call
- An exceptional academic track record from high school and university
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity
- Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence
- Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable
- Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character
Nice to have
- A management-consulting background: comfortable with ambiguity, able to diagnose, propose and move
- Experience coaching across a distributed, fast-moving, technical organisation
- Experience building competency or development frameworks
- Experience designing and running effective workshops or training sessions, in person and online
- Learning-design judgment for development materials
- Talent-development experience, valued alongside but secondary to coaching and consulting craft
Your team
Talent Development
Exists to make leaders and managers at Canonical genuinely excellent; defines what great management looks like and brings managers and leaders up to that standard through direct, hands-on work, both from the centre and embedded inside engineering and commercial organisations.
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
Canonical builds the open-source software that runs the world's clouds, devices and AI.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles; most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Precise
- Reliable
- Accessible
- Adroit