Change Manager

Change Manager £78,000 per annum Bedford Fixed Term Contract (6 months) Hybrid Working Ready to lead meaningful change across an organisation that’s making a real difference? Join MaPS as a Business Change Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future. You’ll work across teams to assess readiness, plan and embed change, and ensure stakeholders are informed and empowered. From building change management plans to supporting benefit realisation through sustained embedment of new ways of working, your expertise will drive success across our Change Portfolio. Be part of a dynamic Change Community and help us deliver impactful transformation that matters. You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.Role Overview The Change Manager will report directly to Business Change Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Adoption of ‘technical’ changes: This role will have a focus on adoption of new ways of working into a contact centre environment, on systems changes and systems integration into BAU operations. The contact centre runs 100% remotely, and is a mixture of current MaPS employees and additional colleagues joining MaPS in April
• ADKAR: MaPS is flexible of change methodology, but Prosci’s ADKAR is known and preferred. By taking colleagues on a journey through ADKAR, recognising colleagues as individuals experiencing change, the Change Managers role is to ensure changes are successfully adopted and embedded into the business
• Communications: Critical to success, working alongside other colleagues within the department, communications must be coordinated, targeted and meaningful, gaining advocacy for change, with 2-way feedback built into the engagement process.
• Communities of Practice: To get buy-in, and ensure adequate peer support, the change manager is to play a leading role supporting the development of communities of practice for key systems, and development of change champion networks were required
• Benefits: As projects and programmes progress into BAU, the change manager will be responsible for setting out the benefits, how these will be monitored, whether programme or BAU, backed up by sustainment plans to ensure successful outcomes

...General role Responsibilities:

• Managing Change: With a key focus on people change, and ensuring that colleagues impacted by change are ready, willing and able to commit to the change, adopting new ways of working, and transitioning to BAU effectively, is essential to this role
• Leadership and Delivery: Provide effective leadership in change management, assist in the development of a clear vision and standards, and directly support the capability building of change management principles at a leadership level and build strong internal and external networks.
• Building Networks: This role is working on high impacting and far-reaching projects, building strong networks and being able to influence direction of change to ensure value generation through adoption of change is maximised
• Change Management Community of Practice: Collaborate with key stakeholders at all levels to develop and progress business change / change management across the organisation building MaPS change management maturity
• Change Planning: Own the change plan for the project and contribute to the overall project plans for key strategic projects, sometimes working to demanding timelines within complex change projects.
• Operational Readiness: Manage operational readiness criteria and lead the go-live decision process in collaboration with the Project Managers, project boards, SRO’s and business end-users.
• Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholder engagement, ensuring it meets Business Change requirements and act as the point of contact for senior/strategic stakeholders.
• Guidance and Support: Provide direction and guidance to the across the change portfolio as required.

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience. To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate

• Significant experience in applying business change methodology within a formal project and programme environment.
• Proven track record of delivering change within customer-facing operations and remote access/telephony services.
• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement, risk and issues management, and benefits realisation.
• Comprehensive understanding of all stages and elements of a programme and project lifecycle including planning, scheduling, resource management, governance, assurance, and business case development.
• Proficiency in using a range of change management frameworks and methodologies depending on project needs to ensure outcomes are sustained through the adoption of new ways of working
• Awareness of solutions development and budgeting and cost management.

Our Recruitment Process We keep things simple, fair, and transparent:Stage 1: Application process – Please submit your most up-to-date CV along with a cover letter answering the following scenario Question (Max 500 words):

• Describe a situation where you had to quickly adapt to a new challenge or environment. How did you approach it, collaborate with others, and what was the outcome? Why does this experience make you a strong candidate for this role?

Stage 2: If successful at Application review, you will be invited to book in for a Telephone Interview (up to 30 mins) Stage 3: Final stage interview with the hiring panel Everything we do aligns with the Civil...