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Government Recruitment Service; Swindon; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The Government Property Agency is seeking a Change and Continuous Improvement Manager to lead and coordinate CI across the organisation from its Swindon base. The role requires embedding change management practices, delivering a robust CI framework, and partnering with Enterprise Portfolio colleagues and communications teams to drive transformational delivery.

You will support leadership, sustain CI activity during critical operations, and help shape future business needs in a dynamic

Responsibilities

• Deliver ongoing support and resources to targeted CI activity, proactively helping people across the organisation to improve and adapt to new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Embed CI and change management good practice, actively promoting CI and change management as a core skill and cultivating it as an organisational mindset.
• Support delivery and improvement of the GPA change management strategy and framework.
• Develop, deliver, and embed a comprehensive CI framework, providing tools and resources into the GPA's way of working through initiatives such as dedicated masterclass sessions.
• Work closely with the Head of Change and CI (Corporate) and Enterprise Portfolio colleagues to support the development and delivery of enterprise portfolio management principles.
• Collaborate with communications teams to thoroughly understand key stakeholders, analyse how CI and change affect them and lead internal communications activity.
• Maintain and nurture a community of CI workstream leads alongside a wider CI/change champion community across the GPA, facilitating the sharing of good practice, achievements, and vital lessons learned.
• Upskill and support leadership across all grades, ensuring they are equipped to deliver effective change and help our people with their response to change activity.
• Work closely with business areas to provide targeted business change management and CI delivery when needed, drawing upon external expertise where appropriate to ensure successful implementation
• Support high-level strategic planning by maintaining a cross-organisation overview of change activity, ensuring initiatives are aligned to support transformational change and holding senior leaders and business areas to account for their delivery
• Ensure continuity of CI activity and change management support for critical business operations while supporting scoping future business needs.

Job description

Change and Continuous Improvement Manager

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £43,936 to £48,268 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Swindon

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 2 Sept 2026

Closing date: 15 Sept 2026

Summary

The Government Property Agency is the largest property holder in government, with morethan £2.1 billion in property assets and over 55% of the government’s office estate.

We are transforming the way the Civil Service works by creating great places to work,leading the largest commercial office programme in the UK, working towards halving carbonemissions from government offices, and achieving greater value for taxpayers. And we arelooking for innovative, solutions-focused people to join our team.

Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leadingsignificant transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme,Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme. We are also delivering cost-effective property services such as asset management, lifecycle replacement and workplaceservices.

Innovation and progress underpin our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning,where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged. Our four core values are at the heartof everything we do. They shape our culture and guide how we work, lead and growtogether:

• Striving for excellence- We always aim to deliver great results
• Empowering through respect- We insist on fair treatment for all, always
• Acting with integrity- We consistently do the right thing
• Succeeding together- We rely on each other to achieve success

We are committed to representing the communities we serve by making Equality, Diversity,and Inclusion (EDI) part of everything we do. Our strong emphasis on EDI is not just aboutdriving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet theneeds of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces. To ensurethat we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularlyinviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, andpeople who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability,nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth.

We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningfulimpact; where you influence; where your voice really matters; where you help to shape ourfuture direction.

The Corporate Performance Team sits at the heart of the GPA, working across the entire organisation (and with key external stakeholders) to help ensure that it is best delivering against short and long term objectives, vision and strategy and as such, is delivering the best possible service to our Clients and Customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver ongoing support and resources to targeted CI activity, proactively helping people across the organisation to improve and adapt to new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Embed CI and change management good practice, actively promoting CI and change management as a core skill (specifically under Innovation) and cultivating it as an organisational mindset.
• Support delivery and improvement of the GPA change management strategy and framework.
• Develop, deliver, and embed a comprehensive CI framework, providing tools and resources into the GPA's way of working through initiatives such as dedicated masterclass sessions.
• Work closely with the Head of Change and CI (Corporate) and Enterprise Portfolio colleagues to support the development and delivery of enterprise portfolio management principles.
• Collaborate with communications teams to thoroughly understand key stakeholders, analyse how CI and change affect them and lead internal communications activity.
• Maintain and nurture a community of CI workstream leads alongside a wider CI/change champion community across the GPA, facilitating the sharing of good practice, achievements, and vital lessons learned.
• Upskill and support leadership across all grades, ensuring they are equipped to deliver effective change and help our people with their response to change activity.
• Work closely with business areas to provide targeted business change management and CI delivery when needed, drawing upon external expertise where appropriate to ensure successful implementation
• Support high-level strategic planning by maintaining a cross-organisation overview of change activity, ensuring initiatives are aligned to support transformational change and holding senior leaders and business areas to account for their delivery
• Ensure continuity of CI activity and change management support for critical business operations while supporting scoping future business needs.

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