Student Systems Business Change Manager *

Full Time Fixed Term (24 months)

An opportunity has arisen to join the University’s Student Systems Team on a 24 month fixed term contract, working with colleagues across the institution to shape the future of the University’s Student Record System.

As an experienced change manager, you will have the skills and expertise to deliver change management workstreams as we embark on a programme of modernisation and development.  In this role you will be part of our Banner programme team, working with a range of technical specialists and business stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and adoption of change.

What you’ll do: 

• Focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organisation structures.
• Assess the impact of changes, assess business readiness and implement change management plans for communications, engagement, training, and resistance management.
• Working as part of the Student Systems Team, you’ll report to the Banner Business Change Lead.

What you’ll bring:

• An understanding of the importance of change management in programme and project delivery.
• Ability to collaboratively build change management plans to ensure business readiness for technology change.
• 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 value the diversity of the wider community and play your part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.

Benefits

By joining the University of Southampton, you will enjoy a number of benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a dependable pension scheme, staff discounts across a wealth of purchases, interests and activities and membership opportunities for gym and sports facilities.

You can also find application tips on our website.

* Upon appointment the title will be known as Banner Business Change Manner

Further details:

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

Apply by 11.59 pm GMT on the closing date.

For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.

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