Senior Business Change Manager - (Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 18 months
Contracting Authority: AWE
Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week at the Aldermaston site / Remote Working
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
As a Senior Business Change Manager your main responsibilities will be
* Leading the design of change management activities in the business and managing their delivery using a structured methodology.
* Applying the company change process and tools to the allocated projects and initiatives.
* Establishing and implementing the mechanisms by which benefits can be delivered and measured.
* Delivering assigned projects in accordance with requirements and operational constraints.
* Building effective stakeholder relationships and manage their expectations to meet underlying business needs.
* Working with the business to optimise the timing, scale and method of releasing project and change deliverables into business operations.
* Actively seeking feedback from affected areas of the business and using this to inform future approaches to change management.
* Ensuring that the affected business areas are supported through transition phases and that activities and measures are in place to reinforce new ways of working.
* Assisting the Head of Business Change in maintaining a network/community of practice of change leads, change agents and practitioners across the business.
* Supporting the Head of Internal Comms with change related Comms and providing feedback from across the business.
Essential Skills
* Support change practitioners throughout the business in delivering local change initiatives.
* Preparing affected business areas for the transition to new ways of working.
* Working with key stakeholders to develop effective and appropriate communications.
* Providing feedback to the Project Lead and the Transformation Lead for Change and Communications on benefits realisation and risks.
* Experienced with Prosci change management
* Working with specialists to develop appropriate training materials to support change activities.
* Strong self starter
Desirable Skills
* Experience in the delivery of people change in regarding to office location moves would be highly beneficial
* Teaching background would be highly beneficial
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AWE's ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.