Business Change Lead - #2165647

We’re looking for an Implementation & Business Change Lead to join a government digital and cyber function, helping to deliver the strategy and capabilities that keep a community of over 30,000 civil servants secure.

This isn’t a technical security role. It’s about making change happen. You’ll take cyber initiatives from plan to reality, bring people with you through organisational and cultural change.

Day to day duties

• Planning, delivering and controlling cyber initiatives to agreed time, scope and budget
• Tracking progress against plans, spotting slippage early and escalating it before it becomes a problem
• Assessing the value of cyber programmes and schemes, and recommending whether to continue, adapt, scale or stop them
• Presenting financial findings and finding chances to reduce or reallocate spend
• Identifying, assessing and reducing delivery risks and issues, and solving problems to keep work on track
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across departments to secure alignment and collaboration
• Guiding colleagues through organisational and cultural change so new cyber capabilities, processes and ways of working land smoothly
• Providing insight that supports cross-departmental digital and cyber strategy

Essential skills and experience:

• A background as a Business Change Manager in a government or wider public sector organisation is preferred, we’ll also consider strong Project Managers with the right change experience.
• A track record of supporting, driving or enabling large-scale transformation, organisational change or programme progression. You’ve moved a programme from A to B and can show the results.
• Experience helping to shape, develop or implement programmes or strategic initiatives
• Confidence managing plans, budgets, risks and issues, and reporting to senior stakeholders
• Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to influence across organisational boundaries
• The ability to explain change clearly and bring people with you

This contract offers an excellent opportunity to for a government organisation that is at the forefront of digital excellence.