Change & OD Specialist

Change & OD Specialist

Never has there been a more exciting time to join a team of open, honest and passionate employees

Three is forward thinking, you can’t stagnate in this job, and you’ll be part of a charming bunch of people that will become lifelong friends. There’s an energy here that’s infectious; we defy convention and we’re always looking at ways to shake up the industry and to surprise and delight our customers. You can be yourself here, and you’ll get to build strong relationships with colleagues across the business.

Join us a Change & Organisational Development (OD) Specialist

The Change & OD Specialist is responsible for supporting and enabling the business partnering and change functions within the team, with a particular focus on supporting the organisation’s transformation to enterprise agile ways of working. This role reports to the Head of People Experience & OD. This role involves developing adaptive frameworks and tools that facilitate the design, delivery, and embedding of people, organisational, and agile change. The Change & OD Specialist will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure a consistent and aligned approach to both traditional and agile change initiatives, helping build an agile mindset and embedding new ways of working across the business.

What else it involves

• Maintain and continuously improve frameworks and toolkits that enable the organisation to effectively deliver and embed people, organisational, and agile change.
• Support the planning, coordination, reporting, and delivery of business change projects and agile transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise-wide aims.
• Track, monitor, and report on all organisational design, people change, and agile change activities, ensuring they are coordinated and integrated with other key activities.
• Evaluate information and data to understand trends, identify areas for improvement, and provide insights that support continuous improvement and agile adoption.
• Research relevant people, change, and agile topics to support the development of people solutions with a focus on agile and continuous improvement.
• Build and manage relationships across the organisation that support and enable change, with a focus on embedding agile mindsets and practices.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to drive positive 'one team' ways of working, encouraging cross-functional collaboration and iterative delivery.
• Identify gaps in processes, ways of working, and collateral, defining and delivering actions to drive improvements that support agile and business transformation.
• Direct and contribute to key projects (design, plan, implement, review) and support agile initiatives, ceremonies, and interventions as required.
• Prepare and deliver engaging presentations and updates for assigned projects and agile transformation initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops, retrospectives, and other collaborative sessions to support learning, reflection, and continuous improvement.
• Support the shift to agile ways of working by coaching teams and senior stakeholders, promoting agile values and behaviours, and enabling mindset shifts.
• Ensure a positive working atmosphere by embodying company values and helping to embed them into the team’s way of working.
• Support wider People team projects and priorities as required.

Skills & experience we're looking for

• Generalist HR experience and/or experience working on a broad range of complex organisational, people, and agile change programs.
• Knowledge of organisational design, change management, agile transformation, and agile change management practices, theories, and models.
• Experience supporting or delivering enterprise agile transformation initiatives (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, or other scaled agile frameworks).
• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills across all levels of the organisation, including coaching and influencing senior stakeholders and teams.
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment, solving problems through collaboration and iterative delivery.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage varying priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience in delivering workshops, retrospectives, or other agile ceremonies (Nice to Have).
• Curious mindset with a focus on how ways of working can be improved and optimised.
• Proven ability to plan, implement, and review projects and deliver outcomes in iterative, fast-paced environments.
• Collaborative and adaptable team player with a high level of personal resilience and ability to remain effective in changing circumstances.
• Strong customer focus and employee experience mindset.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, able to engage and influence stakeholders effectively.
• Self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative, driving progress and outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience in a people business partnering and/or organisational development role.
• Project management skills, including knowledge of agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Data-focused mindset and experience in using data to inform decisions and track success.

Benefits of Working at Three

• Flexible working with our new Hybrid model, our employees will enjoy more flexibility working from home and our Dublin head office location (office based 3 days per week)
• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus & pension contribution
• 25 days holidays plus 2.5 company days
• Annual Leave buy or sell (buy or sell up to 5 days AL each year)
• Healthcare Insurance through our flexible benefits programme
• Life assurance, phone & laptop, subsidized canteen
• Access to learning & development tools
• Free on-site parking

There’s a lot more to us than meets the eye.
You may think you know us, but we’re full of surprises. Intrigued? Join us and Be Phenomenal. 
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At Three, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As Ireland’s largest mobile telecommunications provider, we provide a better connected life for our diverse customer base, and want our teams to reflect this. We welcome and celebrate all identities and strive to create a culture of belonging where employees can thrive as their authentic selves. If you do not ‘tick every box’ in this job description, you likely have other valuable skills that would make you a great fit for one of our teams. If you feel this role is for you, then please apply! 

If you require reasonable adjustments for your interview, please let us know when scheduling your interview, or alternatively, please email aoife.omeara@three.ie Apply now at Three, a Phenomenal career awaits!