Senior Business Change Manager

Full Time Fixed Term

Interview Date: To be confirmed

IT Portfolio - iSolutions

The University’s IT Service, iSolutions, are looking for the right people to deliver projects that change how the University uses IT to work. We deliver a full range of IT services to all staff and students and this role will join our IT Portfolio community of Project Managers and Business Analysts. We run a wide range of projects and programmes to improve our current services and transform the staff and student experience to a diverse community of 23,000+ students and over 5,500 University staff.

We are looking for a Senior Business Change Manger with experience in supporting the effective delivery of complex change:  

What you’ll do: 

• Play a key role in ensuring change initiatives meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage.
• Focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organisation structures.
• Undertaking change impact assessments, recommending relevant change management interventions, assessing business readiness and implementing associated change management strategies.
• Be working in a small team of Senior Business Change Managers, helping to embed effective change management capability in the IT Portfolio working within the Prosci change management framework.

What you’ll bring:

• An understanding of the importance of change management in programme and project delivery.
• Ability to build a change management plan with mapped activities, milestones, deliverables, outcomes, and benefits identification. 
• Experience of analysing situations and problems, an ability to work systematically to resolve problems, identify causes, anticipate implications and make informed decisions on courses of actions.
• An understanding of change management tools, methodologies, and models.

Working at UoS

Our Strategic Plan – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) builds on the ambition articulated in the University Strategy: “It matters that we act continually to ensure the University is supportive and inclusive of everyone”.

Our EDI mission is to create an inclusive university community, and our vision is that this is a community where, as an individual student or member of staff:

• You feel welcomed for who you are, and this is a place where you feel that you can influence the way we do things now and in the future
• You feel included and supported to reach your true potential
• You are intellectually stretched and challenged
• You value the diversity of the wider community and play your part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.

As part of our commitment to your well-being we offer an occupational pension scheme and generous holidays.  Staff also have access to our state-of-the-art on-campus sports, arts, and culture facilities, a full programme of events, and access to a number of university employee-discount schemes.

Work-life balance is important to us and this is reflected in our generous maternity policy and childcare facilities; employees are also able to participate in the Childcare Voucher Scheme. Our staff may wish to have working patterns that fit in with their caring responsibilities, so we invite requests to undertake this role on a part-time or a flexible working basis.  We also welcome applicants who have had career breaks for reasons including maternity, paternity or adoption leave, disability, or illness.

For an informal conversation about this role, please contact Cath Thomas, crt1v14@soton.ac.uk. 

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