Change Manager — Finance2030 Transformation

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is seeking a Change Manager to lead people-focused change across the Finance2030 transformation. You will prepare colleagues for new ways of working, support business readiness and deliver communication and engagement activities to secure buy-in from project teams, senior leaders and stakeholders.

You will develop change management plans, assess impacts on processes and services, facilitate workshops, manage risks, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Experience delivering business change in large transformation programmes.
• Ability to assess impacts on people, processes and services.
• Experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of business change across Finance2030 programme workstreams.
• Develop change management plans, impact assessments and readiness analyses.
• Support Project Managers in developing and maintaining the business change elements of business cases.
• Assess the impact of change on people, processes, services and ways of working.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities and maintain strong working relationships across the Finance and wider organisation.
• Support business readiness activities and provide evidence to inform implementation and go-live decisions.
• Develop and deliver communication and engagement activities, including presentations, briefing materials and key messages that support understanding and adoption of change.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings and engagement sessions to gather feedback, build understanding and support adoption.
• Identify and manage change risks, issues and resistance to change.
• Support benefits realisation activities and monitor the adoption of new ways of working.
• Provide advice, guidance and reporting on change activity, stakeholder engagement and business readiness.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Workshop facilitation

Project coordination

Job description

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is seeking a Change Manager to lead people-focused change across the Finance2030 transformation. You will prepare colleagues for new ways of working, support business readiness and deliver communication and engagement activities to secure buy-in from project teams, senior leaders and stakeholders.

You will develop change management plans, assess impacts on processes and services, facilitate workshops, manage risks, and contribute to