Business Change Consultant - Contract

Business Change Consultant 

Location: Cheltenham (Hybrid). Expectation 3 to 4 days on-site.

Start Date: ASAP subject to clearance 

End date: 12 months 

Rate: SFIA Dependant. Positions available for SFIA 4,5,6.

Clearance: Applicants must currently hold the highest level of UK Government security clearance (UK*C) "Green badge". This position does not support UKSV/MOD held clearances.

Role Description

Bringing your specific technical skills, expertise, and experience into transformational projects, you’ll be part of a team driving forward industry-leading change. You’ll be contributing to the high performance of our projects through a mixture of delivering technical work; assisting in the management of small to medium sized projects to deliver on time, on budget and of an exceptional quality; and contributing to the processes of winning work to secure a future pipeline of opportunities for the division.

Key areas of responsibility will include: 

• The delivery of high quality, innovative client solutions as part of a team.
• Data processing, technical report writing, requirements gathering.
• Project management support for large budget projects.
• Assisting in the development of consultancy offerings, bids, and propositions.
• Technical consultancy and assurance; growing your area of technical expertise.

Skills and experience

A working knowledge and demonstrable experience in all or some of the following areas:

• Working collaboratively with senior stakeholders in technology-led transformation programmes, across strategy, business design and change management.
• Analysing complex problems, designing innovative solutions, and communicating them effectively to a wide range of audiences.
• Delivering transformational change, with awareness and knowledge of Business Change models, tools, and techniques.
• Experience of preparing affected business areas for transitioning to new ways of working.
• Experience of guiding stakeholders through business transformations.
• Communications planning and implementation.
• Exemplary stakeholder engagement and management skills.
• Experience facilitating workshops with wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to build strong and lasting relationships with clients at all levels in a business environment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates an analytical and systematic approach to issue resolution
• Expected to take roles in client or business delivery assignments, with responsibility for achieving stakeholder satisfaction, producing deliverables to expected quality and within commercial constraints
• Will need to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships as will be often embedded in the client’s delivery teams working directly with client staff and consultants from other organisations
• Contribute and collaborate with a range of stakeholders routinely. Being adaptable and flexible to suit the circumstances, being prepared to work at a high-level or at a detailed level when required
• Delivery of high quality, innovative solutions
• High value strategic and technical advice
• Research and development studies

As an individual

• Have delivery experience either as a Business Change consultant or comparable role
• APMG Change Management Practitioner and/or PROSCI Practitioner and/or MSP accreditation equivalent desirable but not essential
• Delivering transformation change with awareness and knowledge Business Change models tools and techniques
• Be self-motivated and confident, with strong people skills
• Be able to gain client trust and identify opportunities for adding further value to the client relationship
• Encourage collaboration
• Lead by example
• Be able to demonstrate strong problem-solving skills
• Be an excellent communicator, verbal (ability to listen) and written (able to write concisely) including the production (where required) of project documents/products
• Be focussed on outcomes

This is a business-critical position and we are looking to arrange interviews as soon as possible. To be considered please apply directly or contact me via email at lewis.thompson@searchability.com