Change Manager

Change Manager - Housing Association - South London - Permanent - circa. £50k salary

• Be a part of this Housing Associations new Business Improvement Team! An exciting time to join the business and make an impact.

Client Details

Change Manager - Housing Association - South London - Permanent - circa. £50k salary

• The client is a Housing Association in South London.

Description

• Foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement and customer focus, acting as an exemplar across the clients management community.
• Support the backlog planning process through activities such as backlog refinement, business case development and outline planning.
• Utilize the adaptive change delivery methodology for the delivery of all work and contribute to on-going improvement/refinement of the methodology.
• During the Destination:2023 transformation, Change Managers may be aligned to one or more workstreams to take delivery responsibility in support of a Workstream Leader.
• Carry out stakeholder analysis to ensure engagement and management approach is aligned.
• Plan all activities for assigned project/change initiatives and manage delivery in a highly transparent way; owning, overseeing and escalating in areas such as progress, risks, roadblocks, costs and value realization.
• Ensuring all necessary reporting is completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Establish governance and steering in line with methodology, supporting and enabling sponsors and accountable senior leaders in their roles.
• Ensure service areas are prepared for new ways of working and process changes through change management plans and impact assessments including training needs analysis.
• Ensure there is sufficient support available for the new ways of working to operate through transition into 'business-as-usual'.
• Support colleagues whilst the transition is taking place.
• Ensure a clear, high resonance communications plan is formed and executed.
• Ensure measures and indicators are identified to support full adoption and utilization of change.
• Ensure reinforcement and embedding plans are in place, on an on-going basis.
• Capture, track and update benefits in conjunction with business colleagues and PMO
• Review, inspect and adapt through further iterations to realize value in line with business / workstream plans.

Profile

• Lean qualification
• Agile
• Change Management
• Project management (or substantial qualification through delivery experience of project and change management.) Experience
• Modern, nimble flow-based change model delivery experience.
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience with a varied scale and type of organizational change efforts.
• Proven ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Experience of leading change in public service provider setting.
• A solid understanding of how people go through change and the change process
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
• Forward looking with a holistic approach
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to influence and lead in a matrix, cross-functional model.
• Knowledge of risk management.
• Knowledge of agile, lean and flow-based delivery models.
• Resilient, tenacious and outcome focused.
• Highly self-aware.

Job Offer

Change Manager - Housing Association - South London - Permanent - circa. £50k salary

• £50-55,000 salary
• Good benefits package