Change Manager

King's College London - Transformation Office

About us:

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

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.

About the role:

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

The postholder will work with the Senior Change Manager to support:

• Effective transformation by increasing staff awareness and engagement and ensuring that change management plans are built into wider project and programme planning
• Change management plans which include impact assessment, sponsor roadmaps, resistance and communications plans
• Coaching and guiding sponsors through the phases of change
• University-wide awareness and capability in change management by working closely with the Head of Change Management, and building and contributing to the broader university Change Community of practice and Transformation Network
• Providing change management training, coaching, tools and consultation/advice across the University

Key responsibilities

Delivery of Change Management on Strategic transformation initiatives:

• Prepare and deliver an end-to-end change management process on assigned programmes or projects
• Build strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, whether academic staff, professional services staff or external partners
• Through engagement with stakeholders identify areas of resistance and evaluate stakeholder readiness for change
• Support the creation of change management case studies to support awareness and to celebrate success
• Help to build change capability across King’s by delivery of training and development of associated tools
• Co-ordinate and support content creation to underpin change activities of within both a project and programme environment
• Assist in the development and implementation of change communication plans

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This is a hybrid working role where the role holder will spend 3 days of their working week on campus and 2 days working remotely.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a maternity cover contract for 12 months, or whenever the substantive post holder returns.