Senior Change Manager

Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Brighton is seeking an experienced organisational change professional to lead the Transformation Programme, translating approved designs into implementation and workforce transition plans, ensuring change is delivered fairly and in line with legal requirements.

You will work with leaders, HR and unions to deliver complex change, manage risks, and support colleagues through transitions, while upholding an inclusive, agile working approach across campus and home.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex organisational change and transformation programmes.
• Expertise in workforce transition, consultation and implementation.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and employee relations in change scenarios.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior leaders and unions.
• People-centred approach to change with risk management capability.

Skills

Organisational change

Transformation programmes

Workforce transition

Employment law knowledge

Stakeholder management

Job description

Lead organisational change. Shape the future. Make a lasting impact.

The University of Brighton is delivering significant organisational and workforce transformation to support its future ambitions. We are seeking an experienced organisational change professional to play a key role in delivering this transformation across the University.

This two-year opportunity will lead the delivery of organisational change projects and workforce transition activity arising from the Transformation Programme in line with our 2035 Strategy: Distinctively Brighton . As part of a collaborative team delivering the University's transformation agenda, you will translate approved organisational designs into effective implementation and workforce transition plans, ensuring change is delivered successfully, fairly and in line with legal and organisational requirements. You will provide expert advice and support on organisational change, consultation, redeployment and redundancy, helping leaders and managers navigate complex change programmes while supporting colleagues through periods of transition.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience delivering complex organisational change, transformation and restructuring programmes
• Expertise in workforce transition, consultation and organisational implementation
• Strong knowledge of employment law and employee relations practice relating to organisational change
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with senior leaders and trade unions
• A collaborative, people-centred approach to change, with the ability to manage organisational risks and deliver successful outcomes

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of the University, playing a key role in delivering significant organisational and workforce change that will support the University's long-term vision.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.
For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.