Change Manager required for a Central Government department. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Ensuring business change activities are recorded & reflected in fully integrated project plans.

• Planning, supporting & enabling the implementation of packages of change that provide tangible business outcomes & measurable benefits realisation.

• Building the case for change & awareness within the business for the need to change & the changes that are to be made.

• Preparing messaging to maintain business attention on upcoming changes.

• Assessing, planning & managing communications throughout the process teams & other stakeholder groups.

• Preparing affected business areas for transition to new ways of working.

• Identifying & taking steps to counter any resistance to planned changes – acting as critical friend & voice of the customer into the project over organisational capacity & preparedness for change.

You'll need: 

• Demonstrable Business Change Management experience – inc. managing change resistance, defining & implementing both organisational / technical change & delivering multiple work items.

• Advanced communication skills – ability to deliver simple, clear communications to technical & non-technical audiences – engaging with & building trust with stakeholders at all levels.

• An understanding / experience of transition management activities – moving to BAU.

• Change planning experience within Waterfall / Agile project management practices