Assistant People & Organisation Consultant Industrial Placement 2022

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Launch your career with Arup

Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today's built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges – turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world.

The Operations Consulting team is part of the Advisory Services Group in Arup. Operations Consulting works at the intersection between the built environment and the people who use and experience it. We advise and deliver solutions that transform the operations and organisational performance and capability of our clients in the UK and beyond. To do this, we focus on people, processes, technology and assets, implementing solutions that encompass sustainability and innovation.

Operations Consulting's People & Organisation Services include

• Operating Model, Organisation Design & Governance: We develop fit-for-purpose operating models, organisational structures and governance models that enable our clients to deliver on their strategic and operational objectives.
• Culture, Transformation & Change: We support our clients through every aspect of transformation, from articulating a vision for the future and then putting the right foundations in place to mitigate risk and enable lasting and sustainable change.
• Team Alignment, Effectiveness & Collaboration: We help our clients align individuals, teams and organisations to achieve high performance across multiple contexts and levels of complexity, from business-as-usual situations to highly complex, multi-party environments.
• Leadership, Talent & Capability: We enable our clients to lead across boundaries by building and integrating talent and capability across an entire enterprise (including owners, investors and suppliers where relevant) to work as one team and optimise value to the entire system.
• Resilience & Wellbeing: We work with our clients to promote wellbeing and resilience at all levels and contexts during complex and stressful situations often encountered in times of transformation, systems change, or concentrated programmes of work.

We operate in a range of markets including Energy, Water, Highways, Aviation, Rail, Science and Industry, Property and Healthcare.

Are you interested in a career in People & Organisation Consulting?

We are looking for Assistant People & Organisation Consultants to join our team in London as part of a 1-year industrial placement. This role will start in the summer of 2022 and end by summer 2023.

The position offers an opportunity for People & Organisation science students to apply their emerging understanding in technical areas such as organisation design, development, team leadership, collaboration and workplace wellbeing while gaining practical experience on a wide range of projects in a professional consulting environment.

The Assistant People & Organisation Consultant will be supported by our growing, collaborative and creative team and gain experience from working with other colleagues in Operations Consulting and wider Arup. The role will involve working as part of a team to design and deliver solutions across the different areas of People & Organisation for our clients. Your work may involve activities such as:

• Undertaking qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis to drive insights and diagnostics on clients' organisational behaviour and cultural landscapes
• Supporting delivery of fact-finding and client co-creation workshops in remote and hybrid working contexts
• Applying knowledge of business change and organisation development tools and techniques to make practical recommendations to client challenges
• Engaging with and supporting clients in transition and change implementation activities

What are we looking for?

We encourage our Assistant People & Organisation Consultant to demonstrate drive and motivation, a willingness to learn, be adaptable, and collaborate with those around you to use your analytical and problem-solving skills to effectively deliver an excellent service to our clients. As such we are looking for the following qualifications, skills and attributes in you:

• Studying a relevant degree in a People-focused field, such as: Psychology, Behaviour Science, Human Resource Management, Organisational Development
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in writing and verbally
• Excellent digital skills and possesses a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to gather, analyse, and generate insights from data
• Innovative and creative approach to problem solving

To be eligible, you must be studying a degree course that allows you to complete an industrial placement programme.

Arup Industrial placement opportunities typically run for 11-12 months. You must be available to start on the opportunity during Summer 2022 and commit to completing the programme in full.

What we offer you

Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.

You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.

Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.

Next steps

Complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We'll be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline. Interviews for most Industrial Placement opportunities will commence from early February.

Different people, shared values

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks - BAME, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women - provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference - discover more about life at Arup here.

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone's circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

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