Training and Adoption Manager

AWE plc; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day fortnight

Pension scheme (9-13%)

Maternity/Paternity pay

Professional development funding

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance 4x salary

Discounts

Job summary

Atomic Weapons Establishment is seeking a Training and Adoption Manager to lead change activities for digital adoption across designated areas. You will engage stakeholders, shape training strategies, and ensure effective learning interventions to build user capability and confidence.

The role requires excellent communication skills, experience in change governance, and willingness to travel. AWE offers a 9-day fortnight, a market pension, and career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Understanding of change governance and data protection requirements.
• Demonstrable experience leading business change in digital/tech contexts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing abilities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead business change activities for adoption of digital solutions.
• Identify, engage and influence stakeholders to align on change impacts and readiness.
• Assess training needs and develop training strategies to build user capability.
• Drive adoption of new services, systems or processes and realise benefits.
• Provide post-implementation support and reinforce new behaviours.

Skills

Change governance

Information security

Data protection

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Change management

Travel

Education

Degree in change management or business transformation

Job description

Role

Training and Adoption Manager

Location

RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package

Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern

AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for planning and leading business change activities to ensure successful adoption of digital solutions in the assigned area.
• Accountable for identifying, engaging, and influencing stakeholders to enable a shared understanding of change impacts, readiness, and outcomes.
• Accountable for assessing training needs, developing training strategies, and ensuring delivery of effective learning interventions to build user capability and confidence.
• Accountable for driving adoption of new services, systems, or processes and supporting business areas to realise intended benefits.
• Accountable for providing post-implementation support, reinforcing new behaviours, and embedding changes into business-as-usual operations.
• Accountable for identifying and managing business readiness risks and resistance related to digital change.
• Accountable for ensuring change initiatives align with broader digital strategies and are coordinated with other transformation efforts.
• Accountable for maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and being a great team player.

Essential Criteria

• Understanding of change governance, information assurance, and data protection requirements.
• Degree or equivalent experience in change management, business transformation etc.
• Demonstrable experience leading business change initiatives in digital or technology-enabled contexts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influence.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coordination skills.
• Able to navigate complex change landscapes.
• Willing to travel.

Benefits

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Security Clearance

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.

You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE.

The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

Inclusion and Values

We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We recognise that great people don't always 'tick every box' and we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience.

Other Information

We are at the start of a once in a generation - possibly two generations - programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK's continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects - some of which have never been done before.

We are an Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award Employer.

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