AMS PSR

On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a Business Change Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based remotely which does Include occasional visits to either the Croydon or Manchester locations.

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The candidate will provide additional skills, expertise, and bandwidth to execute high quality business change and communications and engagement initiatives and manage stakeholder relationships.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

As a Business Change Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Assist the Business Change Lead in developing and updating business change activities aligned to the Automation Centre Business change strategy and tactical operating model, based on the stakeholders' needs and preferences.
• Create and disseminate various business change communication and engagement materials, such as newsletters, presentations, videos, surveys, etc, using various channels and platforms to help stakeholders understand, accept, adopt and embed changes created by Automation Centre delivery long term.
• Create and update stakeholder internal SharePoint site and the business change team SharePoint page.
• Help the Business Change Lead in organizing and facilitating various business change events, such as workshops, demos, stakeholder focus groups.
• Collaborate with the Business Change Lead in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, such as senior leaders, business owners, process owners, change agent networks/groups.
• Contribute to the monitoring and measuring of people benefits by reporting and communicating the progress and outcomes of people benefits realization activities to the wider Automation Centre team and SLT.

Essential Skills

• Experience across business change in the delivery of projects with central government
• Stakeholder engagement at all levels across the government department including workshops
• Strong skillset across a portfolio or work including systems and process
• Strong self starter, ability to get up to speed quickly within the team and department
• APMG business change qualification
• Excellent communication skills

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".