King's College London

About us:

The Senior Change Manager role sits within the Transformation Office Directorate.

The Transformation Office supports the senior leadership of the university in effective strategy execution, delivering a complex set of transformation initiatives and driving sustainable improvements to our core business.

The Change Management team provides change management support across a number of strategic projects as well as consultancy and training throughout the University.

About the role:

The Senior Change Manager will work to deliver effective transformation by increasing staff awareness and engagement and ensuring that change management plans are integrated into wider project and programme planning. They will create change management plans that include impact assessments, sponsor roadmaps, resistance, and communications plans.

Additionally, the role involves coaching and guiding sponsors through the phases of change and fostering university-wide awareness and capability in change management by working closely with the Head of Change Management.

The Senior Change Manager will also build and contribute to the broader university change community of practice and Transformation Network.

Finally, the role includes providing change management training, coaching, tools, and consultation/advice across the University.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an FTC for 1 year.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Educated to Degree Level standard or equivalent relevant experience.
2. A Prosci / change management qualification.
3. Solid knowledge and understanding of change management methodologies, tools and techniques. Prosci is our chosen methodology.
4. Experience as a change manager on transformation projects.
5. Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build “trusted advisor” relationships with senior colleagues.
6. Strong interpersonal skills and team working, tact, diplomacy and perseverance.
7. Experience in planning and facilitating training and awareness/engagement events.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience within the Higher Education sector or adjacent/similar sector and understanding of the context we operate in

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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