The posting
Join us in creating a better world for animals
At World Animal Protection, we are working to strengthen organisational effectiveness, workforce capability and readiness for the future. We are looking for a Transformation, Change and Organisational Development Partner to help us design and embed practical, sustainable approaches that support long-term organisational performance and workforce sustainability.
Working closely with leaders, People teams and specialist colleagues across the organisation, you will lead and support work spanning organisational development, workforce planning, succession planning, capability frameworks and change readiness. You will bring strong diagnostic and systems-thinking skills, translating insight into practical solutions while helping leaders and People Partners build the confidence and capability needed to lead and sustain change effectively.
What you will be doing
- Designing and delivering organisational development interventions that strengthen organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and team performance.
- Partnering with leaders and People Partners to diagnose organisational challenges and identify practical, evidence-based solutions.
- Leading workforce and succession planning approaches and developing skills and capability frameworks aligned to future organisational priorities.
- Supporting organisational design initiatives, career pathways and internal talent mobility approaches.
- Embedding practical change management approaches and supporting organisational readiness and change impact assessment activities.
- Coaching leaders and People teams to strengthen confidence and capability in leading change.
- Using workforce and organisational data to identify trends, risks and capability priorities, and to inform organisational planning and decision-making.
- Collaborating across Talent, Transformation and People teams to ensure organisational capability approaches are integrated, scalable and sustainable.
What we are looking for
We would love to hear from you if you bring:
- Experience in organisational development, change and/or transformation within a complex or international organisation.
- Experience leading or supporting complex organisational change initiatives.
- Strong change management capability, including planning, stakeholder engagement and implementation.
- Experience designing and embedding organisational frameworks, including workforce planning and skills frameworks.
- Strong organisational diagnosis and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate insight into practical solutions.
- Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work credibly with senior leaders.
- Excellent analytical and data-literacy skills and the ability to generate insights that support decision-making.
- Experience collaborating across global and cross-functional teams and working effectively in complex, fast-changing environments.
Previous experience in an international NGO, a CIPD qualification or experience using psychometric tools would be advantageous but is not essential.
Benefits
- Annual Leave - All staff are entitled to 25 days of annual leave per calendar year. In addition, there are 2 Global Wellbeing midyear closure days and 3 additional days to be taken at the end of the calendar year (Christmas festivity), as determined by World Animal Protection. For part-time staff, holiday entitlement is prorated accordingly
- An increase to annual leave through length of service - 1 additional day leave after each years' service up to max 5 days.
- Long service milestone after 10 years and every 5 years thereafter – 1 additional day will be awarded to the employee
- Pension - World Animal Protection Africa has a Pension Scheme, employer contributes 6% and the employee contributes 4%.
- Group Life Cover - All employees are covered under GPA/WIBA cover.
- Medical Insurance Cover – World Animal protection has a medical insurance cover for its employees that covers; Inpatient/outpatient/maternity/Dental/Optical & counselling service.
- Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
- A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:
- Study leave - 4 days
- Maternity leave – 3 months
- Paternity Leave – 2 weeks
- Adoption leave – 26 weeks
- Jury service leave
- Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10days)
- Pregnancy Loss leave – 10 days per year
- Armed forces leave
- Carers/Dependent Leave (3 days)
- Disability Leave (10 days)
- Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
- Fertility Treatment Leave (5 days per cycle, up to max 3 cycles)
- Gender Affirming Medical Leave (20 days)
- Companion animal bereavement Leave (2 days)
- Employees are entitled to 2 days Volunteer Leave (pro-rata) a year to volunteer for a cause that matters to them
- Flexible working options
- We offer a free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) from an independent provider of employee support services. The EAP is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is accessible by telephone, email or online and is available in many languages. The service is there to help with a wide range of work, family and personal issues.
- Where job vacancies occur, we encourage internal applications, we have a good track record of offering existing staff promotions.
