Project And Change Manager - Business Change

Based in Stafford, Staffordshire

6 Month Contract

£300 PD Inside IR35

This role is to lead on the project management. We have six schemes currently being delivered, the successful candidate will be required to lead and monitor these schemes accordingly.

The Change Team is an established corporate change specialist team that supports senior leaders and operational managers to shape and deliver exciting and complex change programmes and projects. We are responsible for the end to end delivery of many key business change programmes and projects, ensuring that key strategic drivers of the organisation are delivered. Our vision is to drive and deliver a high quality, simplified change management offer across the organisation. Working in collaboration with colleagues and partners, we aim to shape the strategic direction of the organisation whilst making sure we support, enable and deliver the key change priorities and outcomes of the senior leadership team.

You will be responsible for working with senior stakeholders to shape and provide a project management structure and framework to support a key project within the Adult Social Care directorate. You will drive Business Change on behalf of stakeholders across the business and will be able to respond quickly to the demands of complex change programmes.

To be successful in this role you must have a proven background in the below:

• Utilising and working with one or more business improvement or change management methodologies (eg Prince2, Agile, MSP, Lean Six Sigma etc) demonstrating practical experience with a number of tools and approaches.

• Pro-active relationship building with a high level of emotional intelligence. Experience of change management consulting with colleagues at all levels, developing credible and trusted working relationships.

• Working in collaboration with partners, driving change activity across a business area or organisation and using your influencing and negotiating skills to achieve agreed outcomes.

• Ability to work at pace to deliver outputs to tight deadlines

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of managing change projects within a complex environment.

• Experience of applying business design and project management principles to deliver change and transformation effectively

• Understanding of the political context of service delivery and its challenges in the public sector.

• Experience of creating and maintaining effective and influential networks that work collaboratively to shape and deliver better outcomes.

• Intellectually curious and a proven track record of innovation and continuous improvement, bringing in new thinking from outside the organisation.

• Experience of transforming services to deliver better outcomes and services.

• Experience of supporting culture change and transformation.

Due to high demand we are only able to respond to applications that meet the required criteria