Business Change Manager
£49,053 - £52,726 dependent on skills and experience. Plus a non-pensionable skills payment of £4,198.
Job description
Flexible Working: Due to the nature of our work this role is office-based only in Central London. We do however support full-time (36 hours), part-time, compressed and flexible working patterns.
About Us
We’re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service or SIS. Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
The Role
The world is full of change, and it’s no different at MI6. It’s an exciting time to join us, as we’re embracing every opportunity to improve and develop our operations, capabilities and people. In this role you’ll help to put people, rather than just process or technology, at the heart of our business success.
As a Business Change Manager, you’ll be part of the Organisational Change team, which supports and enables transformation and delivers new capability to our organisation. As part of this vital team, you’ll improve and transform our capabilities, working on projects and change initiatives to support our key business areas to realise their most important challenges.
Day to day you’ll have a varied range of roles and responsibilities. As an ambassador of change you’ll manage change planning and delivery, ensuring the proposed change meets the needs of the business and is implemented in line with the approach defined by the Delivery Lead. You’ll assess business readiness for change, design and implement key change activities and develop a transition plan to ensure we deliver our benefits.
About You
As a Business Change Manager, you’ll have experience in change management in a change or project delivery role, or hold a professional change management qualification. You’ll have used your skills to plan and deliver change with a customer-focussed and outcome-oriented mindset. You’ll creatively and tactfully facilitate change solutions to address issues and barriers to change.
You’ll be approachable, friendly, and passionate about sharing knowledge and supporting others. You’ll help everyone understand the role and value of effective change at all levels and play a key role in the continuous professionalisation of change management within the community as well as the wider organisation.
You’ll be eager to develop professionally, whilst staying up to date with the latest emerging change thinking, tools, and approaches. As a skilled communicator, you’ll influence a range of customers and stakeholders, collaborating with staff at all levels and mentoring junior members of the team.
Training and Development
When you join us, you’ll have a full induction to the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You’ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of business change, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.
We're committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We have an extensive skills community dedicated to supporting you. There will be a variety of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring alongside opportunities to pursue career pathways which cover specialism tracks. We’ll support you through our Continuing Professional Development framework. In addition, we’ll support and fund further profession-based training.
Whatever your professional goals, we’ll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role now and throughout your career.
Rewards and Benefits
You’ll receive a starting salary for a Business Change Manager of £49,053 - £52,726, dependent on skills and experience, plus a non-pensionable skills payment of £4,198.
Other benefits include:
* 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays.
* Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme.
* Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel).
* Excellent pension scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations).
* Paid parental and adoption leave.