What's involved with this role: Interim Change Specialist - Pensions Job Ref: Surrey 103237 Pay Rate: £24.40 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 7 months City: REIGATE This role will make a significant contribution to the success of the Pension team. Operating with a degree of professional independence and autonomy the role will predominantly undertake operational work with some project-related work (the mix will vary according to the nature of the work). Reporting to the Head of Change Management you will be responsible for embedding best practice change management. The role will adopt the Pension Team culture of strong standards and accountability in order to responsibly deliver a first-class customer experience. Key responsibilities: Assess or conduct analysis, presenting results and putting forward recommendations on managing more complex situations to support decision making. Analyse and make recommendations for improvement or development of existing systems, processes or policy. Maintain, develop and review systems, processes, procedures and working methods to maximise service delivery, quality, efficiency and compliance. Provide specialist/professional advice and recommendations within defined policy/strategy and procedures to support informed decision making. Plan workloads and secure resources to enable the team/s to achieve a quality service. Lead projects and reviews within a defined area of work as directed by manager to support and enhance service delivery. May assist with budget/resource/funding management in accordance with the organisation's policies and procedures. May have delegated responsibility for a budget(s). Work with others Liaise, communicate and build relationships with other internal departments, customers, partner organisations, agencies and/or contractors to support and represent the team/service. May manage a team operating in a well defined specialist area or oversee the delivery of a range of support services to a service or function Qualifications: Degree qualified, or significant vocational experience demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding relevant work/roles. Knowledge: Knowledge and hands on experience in, change management principles and methodology with the ability to project plan and implement Knowledge and understanding of public sector financial/pensions issues would be an advantage Experience: Demonstrated experience in creating targeted communication and ability to report complex issues in a simple report format to a range of audiences. Experience of delivering organisational culture change - desirable Experience of delivering change in public sector projects - desirable Skills & Abilities: Strong verbal and written communication and influencing skills Great organisational, project and time management skills Ability to solve problems and think analytically Ability to work credibly with colleagues at all levels across the organisation and externally to scope, design and deliver change projects from a strategic plan Ability to design and deliver workshops with multiple attendees to advance strategic plan activities Proficiency in business management, statistics, analytics, and spreadsheet software such as Excel. Proactive approach and looks ahead for potential problems taking preventative or mitigating action in advance Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please