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On behalf of NHSBT , we are looking for a Stakeholder Manager Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based Hybrid with travel 1 day every 2 weeks the nearest NHS BT base ( Bristol, Plymouth, Southampton, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Oxford ) 

The Stakeholder Manager will join the Donor and Session Programme (DASP), a critical digitally-led transformation  programme to truly transform how donors engage with NHSBT to ensure equitable access, enhanced safety, and resilient supply chains for lifesaving blood and plasma products.  This is a key role for the programme and you will be joining us at inception stage, enabling you to have full impact on delivery.

As a Stakeholder Manager , your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead the development and delivery of overarching programme engagement and communication strategies and plan, monitoring and reporting on progress and iterating to ensure effectiveness.
• Report to the Head of Programme Delivery, working as part of the Programme Transformation and Integration workstream.
• Collaborate as part of the Programme Leadership Team and support the work of the Transformation and Integration, Technical Implementation and Business Change Teams.
• Integrate and align strategies and plans with business change ADKAR assessments, sponsor plans, coalition mapping and stakeholder adoption.
• Work with the NHSBT Communications Team to align communication approaches and co-ordinate plans and delivery.
• Define communications and engagement delivery and management methods, processes, tools and templates.
• Develop, maintain and regularly update a library of communication and engagement collateral, and ensure consistent and effective use by the programme.
• Lead comprehensive stakeholder identification analysis using appropriate tools and frameworks.

Essential:

• Significant experience in a stakeholder management role within complex organisational environments, preferably across large-scale digital transformation or change programmes
• Strong understanding and experience of integrating stakeholder engagement within a structured change management framework, ideally Prosci ADKAR or similar
• Proven ability to build trust-based relationships with senior leaders and influence decision‑making without formal authority.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering clear, compelling and impactful communications strategies and plans across multi teams and stakeholders

Desirable:

• Experience working within a healthcare setting or other highly regulated environment
• Programme Management certification (e.g. MSP / PRINCE / AGILE)

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, NHSBT 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 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".