People and OD Specialist

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 5 - Hybrid

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and forward-thinking ‘People & Organisation Development’ Specialist to join our team and play a key role in developing our organisation to meet future challenges.

You will have the ability to lead impactful work across the areas of culture and behaviour, strategic resource management, and organisational design and development. In this role you will get the opportunity to shape the direction and create lasting positive change for our workforce and communities.

You will be confident in influencing and collaborating at all levels, supported by a relevant degree (SCQF 9) and appropriate professional membership. Additional experience or qualifications in leadership, coaching, organisational development, or change would be an advantage.

With broad experience across the people profession underpinning your way of working, you will have a proven track record in delivering people and change initiative. Digitally capable and consultancy minded, you will have the ability to communicate clearly, work in line with our values of fairness, respect, integrity, collaboration, and people focussed, and be able to build strong relationships with ease whilst supporting a forward thinking agenda

You will be proactive, adaptable, innovative, and highly organised, with the ability to work both independently and within a team, with a commitment to continuous development. The role requires flexibility across locations, along with access to a vehicle and a full driving licence.

Please note interviews will held on Thursday, 30 April 2026.

Requirements

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

Please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.