Strategic Change Manager – Transformation & Adoption

Birmingham City University; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Generous leave

Pension

Wellbeing support

Staff benefits

Career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Birmingham City University is recruiting a Change Manager to join the Change and Improvement Team on a two-year fixed-term contract. You will lead change management activities across a portfolio of projects, including improvements to the Student Record System.

You will work with senior stakeholders to plan, embed and sustain changes, develop adoption strategies, and monitor the overall impact of change activity to inform decisions and prioritise work.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering change within complex programmes and projects.
• Experience developing and embedding change management frameworks, methodologies, standards or toolkits.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Experience working with senior leaders and governance groups.
• Experience assessing change impacts, organisational readiness, adoption risks and change capacity
• Excellent communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities whilst maintaining a strategic perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate change management activity across a portfolio of projects and programmes.
• Conduct change impact assessments and identify organisational risks, dependencies and opportunities.
• Develop and deliver stakeholder engagement, communication and change adoption plans.
• Monitor organisational readiness and support leaders in managing change effectively.
• Identify and address resistance to change, enabling successful adoption and benefits realisation.
• Build and maintain an understanding of the overall pattern and workload of change across the University.
• Assess organisational change capacity and advise senior leaders on risks, priorities and emerging concerns.
• Develop and promote change management methodologies, standards, tools and best practices.
• Coach and support project teams, managers and leaders in applying change management principles.
• Support benefits realisation activities and ensure change outcomes are embedded and sustained.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the University's change management capability and maturity.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Communication

Facilitation

Strategic planning

Problem solving

Multitasking

Job description

Birmingham City University is recruiting a Change Manager to join the Change and Improvement Team on a two-year fixed-term contract. You will lead change management activities across a portfolio of projects, including improvements to the Student Record System.

You will work with senior stakeholders to plan, embed and sustain changes, develop adoption strategies, and monitor the overall impact of change activity to inform decisions and prioritise work.