Change Manager

Change Manager in UK Government

Location: Remote (UK-based)

Contract length: Initial 6 months

Rate: tbc

IR35: Outside IR35

SR2 is supporting a major government programme within the environmental and geospatial space and is looking for an experienced Change Manager to support the transition of a large-scale Geospatial Enabling Programme from Outline Business Case (OBC) through to Full Business Case (FBC), Beta, and into live service.

This is a strategic and hands-on role focused on designing and delivering a comprehensive change management approach across a complex stakeholder landscape, including multiple Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs). You’ll play a key role in ensuring stakeholders are ready to adopt new processes, tools, governance structures and ways of working to realise programme outcomes.

Role:

• Develop and own the end-to-end change management strategy and roadmap from OBC through to delivery and BAU
• Lead stakeholder analysis and engagement planning across the department group and ALBs
• Deliver communications and engagement plans, incorporating insights from Alpha and Beta phases
• Facilitate change impact assessments across processes, roles, systems, behaviours and capabilities
• Translate change impacts into actionable interventions including training, communications and readiness activities
• Establish and embed change governance, including reporting, escalation and decision-making frameworks
• Build and coordinate a Change Champion network across business areas and ALBs
• Support process mapping (as-is/to-be) and gap analysis to inform readiness and reporting
• Identify and manage readiness risks across people, process and technology
• Lead capability planning including skills assessments, training strategies and role mapping
• Support Beta preparation and transition planning into BAU
• Contribute to the Transition Service Plan including support models, service readiness and go-live criteria
• Establish feedback loops with stakeholders, user groups and Change Champions
• Align change activities with benefits realisation in collaboration with the Benefits Manager

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering change management within complex government or public sector programmes
• Experience in geospatial, environmental, land use, rural services or similar
• Strong experience supporting programmes moving from business case stages into Beta and live service
• Experience aligning change delivery to benefits realisation frameworks
• Demonstrable experience with stakeholder engagement across large, federated organisations
• Strong understanding of change impact assessment, business readiness and adoption strategies
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, service and operational delivery
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills

If this role looks of interest, please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will be in touch with next steps.