Ashurst Advance Digital – Change Management Consultant (Part time Contract) - Perth

Ashurst; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading legal services firm in Australia is seeking an Interim Change Manager for a part-time role (4 days a week). This position focuses on implementing the firm's AI strategy across key services. Candidates should have a degree in communications or law and 3-5 years of change management experience, ideally within a professional services environment. The role requires strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with teams. Flexible working hours are offered to align with colleagues in the UK.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience in change management, ideally in a law firm or professional services.
• Experience in implementing AI strategies, particularly in due diligence and document review.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement Ashurst Advance's AI strategy across three key services.
• Understand the impact of changes and design relevant mitigation activities.
• Collaborate closely with the People & Culture team.

Skills

Change management

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Agile and lean methods

AI strategy implementation

Education

Degree in communications, law, business or a related field

Tools

Miro

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Ashurst Advance Digital (AAD) is the firm's technology and experience powerhouse, working with our New Law business to develop differentiated services for our clients, whilst embedding digital as a competency for the whole firm through developing and enabling future-fit tools, capabilities and mindsets.

DX is the community within AAD responsible for providing digital experience expertise and methodologies on digital strategic initiatives, legal service transformation capability to support practice and function innovation and digital change management and engagement to support the adoption and embedding of digital change initiatives. The DX team works closely with colleagues across the firm globally.

Recent work has included envisioning the future digital workplace at Ashurst, designing and implementing numerous AI Trials for large swathes of the organisation, designing and delivering the global rollout of a third party generative AI solution, developing the firm's AI strategy and designing client facing digital products.

The team is now seeking an Interim Change Manager for a 4 month, part time role.

About the Role:

The role involves responsibility for the implementation of Ashurst Advance's AI strategy across three key services: Due Diligence, Commercial Contracting and Document Review. Tasks will include understanding the impact of changes, then designing and deploying the relevant mitigation activities such as communication, engagement, training and measuring the success of these activities.

This role will work closely with our People & Culture team to analyse how these changes will impact our peoples' roles and ways of working.

This is a part time role. The requirement for the role is 4 days a week, from 2pm-7pm (Sydney time) to allow collaboration with colleagues in the UK.

Skills and Experience:

• A degree in communications, law business or a related field
• 3-5 years' experience in change management, ideally gained within a law firm or in-house law practice or professional services environment
• Ideally have experience in the implementation of AI strategies, particularly across due diligence, commercial contracting and document review
• Understanding of the impact of changes and designing and deploying relevant mitigation activities such as communication, engagement, training and measuring the success of these activities
• You are confident working with internal teams to assist in analysing how changes will impact peoples' roles and ways of working
• Demonstrable experience of driving change within organisations and working alongside R&D and product teams
• Enthusiasm and excitement for innovation, digital transformation, new best practices and continual learning
• Strong communication, facilitation, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Confidence and fluency in the language and tools of agile, lean and design (including the use of Miro), as well as more traditional business tools (including PowerPoint and Excel)
• Expertise and interest in generative AI and the risks and opportunities it presents the professional services industry
• Be comfortable in an implementation 'hands-on' role
• Based in Australia with the right to live and work here

Ashurst Reach:

This role will be managed through Ashurst Reach, the firm's dedicated flexible legal resourcing platform which provides the firm's clients and Practice Groups within the firm with access to a high-quality talent pool of lawyers and other professionals.

Ashurst Reach is an integral part of the firm's NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance. Our focus is solving our clients' business problems through optimal efficiency, cost effectiveness and digitally innovative legal service delivery.

What to do now:

If you have the skills and experience for this role, please apply and we will be in touch to discuss your application. If you want to find out more about this role or working with Ashurst Reach generally, please email Fiona Craig, our Talent Manager, at [e-mail]

Due to the volume of applications received, we will only respond to successful applicants.