Head of Organisation Effectiveness

. Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (typically 1-2 days per week in the office) We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone determined, someone like you. Head of Organisational Effectiveness to join our brand new team.We're creating a new Organisational Effectiveness Centre of Expertise to help CRUK plan, design and deliver work more effectively. As Head of OE, you will build and lead this new team-bringing together strategic workforce planning, organisational design, the people-side of change, and employee experience, inclusion and wellbeing into a clear, joined-up offer. Your focus is to set simple, usable standards, turn insight into prioritised actions, and provide leaders with a clear, decision-ready view of progress and risks. You'll also energise CRUK's evolution in how work gets done-spotting critical capabilities, advancing skills-based planning, shaping more flexible team structures, and advising on the implications of emerging technologies (including AI) for roles and ways of working-while ensuring inclusion, wellbeing and employee experience are embedded throughout, so teams can adapt faster and achieve more. Lead strategic workforce planning across CRUK, designing tools and activity that help teams plan for future skills, roles, and capacity, enabling HRBPs to run the Strategic Workforce Planning cycles. Strong portfolio & performance leadership, building a single view of People Plan priorities, capacity, risks and benefits, and running short, effective performance reviews that enable timely decisions. Deep organisational design experience, shaping structures, roles, spans/layers and decision paths with clear options and trade-offs, aligned to workforce insights. Strong integration of employee experience, inclusion and wellbeing, turning sentiment and people data into actionable improvements and operationalising the people elements of the EDI strategy; sets psychologically safe, accessible practice by default. In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well. Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more. As the world's largest independent cancer research charity, we conduct research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Our aim is to see 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034 and our staff are integral to achieving that ambition. Cancer Research UK offers you excellent prospects to expand your career as well as the ability to make a real difference to the lives of others. We're always looking for sharp, brave, and collaborative people to join Cancer Research UK and continue to make it a great place to work. Find the career you're looking for and let us change lives together.