Business Change Manager

Job Description

Business Change Manager (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: Until December 2025

Contracting Authority: The Home Office

Location: Hybrid Working (3 days per week office based - Croydon, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield or Solihull)

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government's plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems: Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in - this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

Job Purpose:

We are looking for Business Change Managers (BCMs) to work across a range of medium to large scale projects. You will play a leading role in ensuring that project change/ transition is planned and implemented in such a way that adverse impacts on the business are minimised. Your involvement will begin at an early point in the project life-cycle - embedding core Business Change principles within the project delivery team. You will coordinate, plan, advise on and deliver Business Change activity throughout the process until a successful transition to Business as Usual (BAU).

As a BCM, you will manage delivery of business change, working closely with programme / project managers and Business Change colleagues embedded within the business. This will include providing input into Benefits Realisation.

As a Business Change Manager your main responsibilities will be to:

• Improve staff confidence in the Asylum Transformation change programme through the promulgation of effective local change narratives.
• Improve local co-ordination and delivery of change projects through the development of local change roadmaps and specialist advice on how to implement.
• Ensuring effective communications with all areas of the business that they represent.
• Benefits identification and mapping.
• Identify stakeholders for inclusion in the stakeholder engagement plan.
• Ability to work under broad direction in challenging and unpredictable environments.
• Undertake other duties within the scope of grade and within the limits of skill competence/training as required.
• Travel may be required to other Home Office locations.
• The above lists of duties are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake any of the above tasks or additional tasks not listed above to support the team.

You'll have:

• Experience of delivering change plans and producing change management artefacts including stakeholder management plans, transition plans, adoption, and engagement plans.
• Able to translate and simplify detailed information into a clear, concise format that is understandable for a wider audience.
• Able to deliver clear and effective communications (written and verbal).
• Knowledge or experience working in a project or programme environment.
• Project management qualifications or equivalent experience e.g. PRINCE2, APM, MSP
• Proficient in the use of SharePoint.
• Experience with Private Beta Testing

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

The Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.