Senior Organisational Development Practitioner

About the role

The Senior Organisational Development Practitioner sets the standard for coaching and organisational development at Canonical. This role involves coaching leaders to achieve management excellence, diagnosing leadership needs within organisations, and developing other practitioners in the field. You will work both from the central team and embedded within specific organisations to drive improvements and define new ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Coach leaders to raise their performance against management excellence standards.
• Conduct hard conversations and turn 360 feedback into actionable commitments.
• Perform sharp diagnoses of organisational leadership and drive improvement plans.
• Develop and supervise practitioners in the field to improve their craft.
• Define and implement new ways of working across the globally distributed company.
• Refine management excellence standards based on field insights.

Required skills

• Coaching
• Organisational development
• Leadership development
• English

Nice to have

• Management consulting
• Distributed team coaching
• Competency frameworks
• Workshop design
• Learning design
• Talent development

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university

Benefits

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Priority Pass
• Travel upgrades for company events

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm and the publisher of Ubuntu, a leading open source platform for cloud, IoT, and AI. The company is founder-led, profitable, and operates as a global distributed organisation with over 1,200 colleagues across 75 countries.