Change Manager
Posted Today by Identify Solutions
£69 Per hour
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: My market leading client is seeking a Change Manager with strong consultancy and GDS/Public Sector experience for a 6-month remote assignment. The role focuses on preparing a customer for a key technology switchover, with a preference for candidates experienced with DEFRA or GIS-based technologies. The ideal candidate should be available to start within the next few weeks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and own the programme change management strategy and roadmap from OBC to FBC and into delivery.
- Lead detailed stakeholder analysis and profiling across Defra group and ALBs, including influence/impact mapping and targeted engagement planning.
- Refresh and deliver communications and engagement plans using learning from Alpha and emerging Beta findings.
- Plan and facilitate change impact assessments, identifying impacts across processes, roles, systems, behaviours, data, capability and readiness.
- Translate change impacts into actionable interventions, including communications, training, business readiness, process support, guidance and adoption activities.
- Define and embed change governance, including clear ownership, escalation routes, reporting cadence and decision-making forums.
- Establish and coordinate a Change Champion network across ALBs and targeted business areas.
- Support completion and maintenance of as-is and to-be process mapping and gap analysis, using outputs to inform readiness and board reporting.
- Identify readiness gaps across skills, processes, technology, support arrangements and operational adoption; assign owners and mitigation actions.
- Lead capability planning, including skills audits, learning needs analysis, training approach, role mapping and change support for end users and champions.
- Work with service, product and operational teams to support beta preparation and transition planning into BAU.
- Contribute to the development of the Transition Service Plan, including support model, roles and responsibilities, knowledge transfer, escalation paths, service readiness and go/no-go criteria.
- Establish feedback loops with ALBs, user groups and Change Champions.
- Work closely with the Benefits Manager to ensure change activities are explicitly aligned to benefit realisation and adoption outcomes.
Key Skills:
- Strong consultancy experience in GDS/Public Sector.
- Experience with DEFRA or GIS-based technologies.
- Proven ability to develop change management strategies and roadmaps.
- Expertise in stakeholder analysis and engagement planning.
- Strong communication and engagement skills.
- Experience in change impact assessments and readiness planning.
- Ability to translate change impacts into actionable interventions.
- Experience in defining and embedding change governance.
- Capability in establishing Change Champion networks.
- Experience in process mapping and gap analysis.
- Skills in capability planning and training approaches.
- Ability to contribute to transition service planning.
- Experience in establishing feedback loops with stakeholders.
- Collaboration with Benefits Managers for alignment of change activities.
Salary (Rate): £68.75/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Change Manager
Duration : 6 Months
Location : Remote
Rate : £400 - £550 per day DOE
Status : Outside IR35
Clearance : Eligible for SC
Start Date: Early April
Summary: My market leading client are looking to secure the services of a change manager with strong consultancy and GDS/Public Sector experience. The ideal consultant will need to be available to start within the next few weeks. The assignment itself will be focused on readying a customer for the next phase of a key switchover in technology dependencies inside the organisation. Any experience working with DEFRA or GIS based technologies would be a huge advantage.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and own the programme change management strategy and roadmap from OBC to FBC and into delivery.
- Lead detailed stakeholder analysis and profiling across Defra group and ALBs, including influence/impact mapping and targeted engagement planning.
- Refresh and deliver communications and engagement plans using learning from Alpha and emerging Beta findings.
- Plan and facilitate change impact assessments, identifying impacts across processes, roles, systems, behaviours, data, capability and readiness.
- Translate change impacts into actionable interventions, including communications, training, business readiness, process support, guidance and adoption activities.
- Define and embed change governance, including clear ownership, escalation routes, reporting cadence and decision-making forums.
- Establish and coordinate a Change Champion network across ALBs and targeted business areas.
- Support completion and maintenance of as-is and to-be process mapping and gap analysis, using outputs to inform readiness and board reporting.
- Identify readiness gaps across skills, processes, technology, support arrangements and operational adoption; assign owners and mitigation actions.
- Lead capability planning, including skills audits, learning needs analysis, training approach, role mapping and change support for end users and champions.
- Work with service, product and operational teams to support beta preparation and transition planning into BAU.
- Contribute to the development of the Transition Service Plan, including support model, roles and responsibilities, knowledge transfer, escalation paths, service readiness and go/no-go criteria.
- Establish feedback loops with ALBs, user groups and Change Champions
- Work closely with the Benefits Manager to ensure change activities are explicitly aligned to benefit realisation and adoption outcomes.