Change Specialist

NGARE EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS PTY LTD; Newcastle City Council; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Meal entertainment

School discounts

Career development

Flexible work

Parental leave

Fitness Passport

Employee assistance

Job summary

Newcastle Anglican is seeking a seasoned Change Specialist to join its People & Culture team and lead the organisation’s change governance, standards, and advisory activities. You will support multiple entities with sustainable change, partnering with executives and project teams to ensure readiness and adoption.

The role offers full-time permanent employment, with flexible work options, and benefits including salary packaging, meal entertainment, and school discounts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading change in complex environments.
• Ability to develop and embed governance checkpoints across projects.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and advisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve change governance, standards and advisory mechanisms across the organisation.
• Provide governance advice to executives and project teams to address change impacts.
• Develop change governance checkpoints within business cases, projects and post-implementation reviews.
• Coach leaders on effective change leadership, adoption strategies and communications.
• Oversee change impacts across the project portfolio and identify risks and opportunities.
• Create guidance, templates, and resources to build organisational change capability.

Skills

Change management

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Project leadership

Communication

Coaching

Education

Prosci certification

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Change Specialist

The Opportunity:

Newcastle Anglican has an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Change Specialist to join the People & Culture team. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining effective change governance, standards and advisory mechanisms cross the organisation that enable consistent, well-informed and sustainable change across the diverse entities within Newcastle Anglican.

This is a Full-Time Permanent position.

Why work for us?

Our people are the heart of what we do here at Newcastle Anglican. As a part of our team, you have access to the following great benefits:

• Salary Package a range of everyday living expenses (Mortgage, Rent and Bills), up to $611/fortnight. (cap limit of $15,900 each FBT year).
• Meal entertainment/venue hire benefit, package up to a cap limit of $2,650 each FBT year
• Discounted enrolment fees for all Newcastle Anglican Schools

• Career and development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• 14 weeks paid parental leave or 3 weeks paid partner leave.
• Give back to the community and the people we support.
• Access to Fitness Passport (over 800+gyms)
• Free access to our corporate Employee Assistance Program

What are we looking for?

• Establish, maintain and continuously improve Newcastle Anglican’s organisational change management framework, standards, tools and governance processes to support consistent, high-quality change practice across the organisation.
• Provide expert change governance advice to Executive Sponsors, Project Sponsors, Project Managers and business leaders to ensure people impacts, change risks and readiness considerations are identified early and addressed through appropriate governance forums.
• Develop and embed change governance checkpoints within business case, project initiation, implementation and post-implementation review processes, ensuring change impacts and adoption readiness inform key decisions.
• Provide strategic advice and coaching to leaders and project teams on effective change leadership, stakeholder engagement, communication, workforce readiness and adoption approaches.
• Review and provide assurance over workforce and change strategies and plans developed by project teams or external partners, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose, proportionate to risk and aligned with organisational priorities.
• Maintain oversight of change impacts across the project portfolio, identifying cumulative change load, competing priorities, emerging risks and opportunities to sequence or adjust change activity.
• Develop change insights and reporting for Executive Sponsors and relevant governance forums, including adoption risks, stakeholder readiness, implementation confidence and portfolio-level change capacity.
• Build organisational change capability by developing guidance, templates, learning resources and communities of practice that enable leaders and teams to apply consistent change principles.
• Partner with Communications, People & Culture, Learning and Development, Risk, Quality and operational leaders to ensure change governance aligns with workforce, service quality, compliance and organisational risk requirements.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of change practice across the organisation, using lessons learned, stakeholder feedback and adoption outcomes to strengthen future change governance and advisory services.

About you?

• A current Working with Children check (with clearance to work with children)
• A current NDIS Check
• National Police Check (Newcastle Anglican will consider the relevance of any reported outcomes)
• Current drivers licence
• Change management qualifications (Prosci or similar) (desired)
• Demonstrated high level experience leading change in complex environments
• Proven success developing, documenting, and evaluating change management strategies, frameworks, tools, standards and interventions that support consistent and sustainable change practice
• Experience establishing or contributing to change governance mechanisms
• Strong capability in change planning, business transition, resistance mitigation, and managing multiple high-priority deliverables
• Highly developed consultative, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to provide strategic advice and navigate sensitive, complex, or high-risk organisational issues
• Experience integrating change management with project or portfolio delivery

Who we are?

Formerly known as the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Newcastle Anglican is a faith-based organisation serving the people of the Hunter and the Central Coast.

We offer a leading Christian presence to our community through our parishes, four schools, Anglican Care and Samaritans.

Our vision is for people to flourish because of what we do, inspired by the way of Jesus.

We provide a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and welcome all applications.

For more information visitwww.newcastleanglican.org.au or for enquiries and a copy of the Position Description email the talent team [e-mail]

You must have the right to live and work in Australia.