Senior Organisational Development Practitioner at Canonical – Remote

Canonical is hiring a remote Senior Organisational Development Practitioner to raise management and leadership standards through practical coaching, organisational diagnosis and practitioner development.

Responsibilities

• Coach senior leaders and managers against a defined standard of management excellence, translating feedback into measurable behaviour change.
• Diagnose leadership and organisational effectiveness issues and design actionable improvement plans.
• Work directly with engineering, commercial and central teams to strengthen leadership practices.
• Develop other organisational-development practitioners and establish rigorous coaching methods and standards.
• Use lessons from embedded organisational work to improve leadership development across Canonical.

Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience coaching leaders and delivering organisational-development change, beyond designing training programmes.
• A record of improving leader behaviour and effectiveness, with credibility among directors and senior managers.
• Ability to influence teams without direct authority and to handle challenging development conversations.
• Strong academic history, excellent written and spoken English and a collaborative, analytical approach.
• Willingness to travel internally up to four times per year.

Desirable skills

• Management consulting, coaching across global technology teams and designing competency frameworks.
• Delivering workshops and training sessions and shaping effective leadership-learning materials.

Benefits

• Remote collaboration with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
• Annual personal learning budget of USD 2,000, compensation reviews, recognition rewards and leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme and travel benefits for company events.