Change Lead

Change Lead - Part Time

Contract: 28 hours per week - 1 year fixed term

Salary: GBP42,000 - GBP56,800

Location: Cambridge

Are you ready to take on an exciting new challenge that's designed to fuel your hunger for learning and personal growth? We're inviting applications to explore this unique opportunity to enhance your expertise in change management within our Cambridge Change Management Centre of Excellence. Get ready to lead and inspire people through change!

About the Opportunity

We have a fixed-term or secondment opportunity within our people and culture team for you to actively contribute to a wide array of change management initiatives within our people & culture team. This role offers experience in the world of cultural, behavioural, process, system, and individual changes, where you can drive meaningful impact. We're looking for an experienced Change Lead to support our revised approach for pay progression.

We are supportive of flexible working, so please state your desired working pattern in your cover letter.

About the role

In this critical role, you will deliver flexible and innovative change management to key cross-organisational programmes; whilst contributing towards our ongoing efforts to build enterprise change management capability. Through the creation and implementation of change management strategies and plans, you will build organisational capability and maximise employee adoption and the impact of these programmes.

Great communication and stakeholder management will be key to your success, collaborating with senior leaders sponsoring change initiatives and helping frontline employees build their readiness and adaptability to change. As a skilled facilitator & listener you'll confidently develop key stakeholder relationships and conversations at all levels. Adapting your style and approach, you will cut through complexity, balancing the need for individual change with the strategic outcomes required.

This role will enable you to help colleagues to think creatively and overcome problems and challenges; whilst continuing to develop your own change management skills and confidence.

A bit about you

Combining your curiosity and passion for trying new ideas with your knowledge of change management principles and methods, you're able to successfully lead the implementation and measurement of the people side of change. You are committed to supporting managers to coach their people through complex change.

You continuously strive towards new and improved ways to tackle change management successfully: proactively seeking out new and up-to-date information which can be applied to real life challenges.

Through your experiences of managing and leading people through change, you will have high levels of change agility and adapt well when faced with complexity and ambiguity. You respond well to setbacks and bounce back from failure, learning from the experience and adjusting, where necessary.

Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to identify both the overt and covert culture of our organisation, will help you quickly build credibility with stakeholders at all levels, positioning you as a trusted partner.

You can challenge thinking and question assumptions (including your own) in a constructive way.

You understand psychology/behaviors and their influence on how people respond to transition & change.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 01 April 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 08 April 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity, and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe that diversity of thought, background, and approach create better outcomes. More importantly, fostering an inclusive culture is the right thing to do, and it's part of how we achieve our purpose: to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Ensuring that anyone, no matter who they are, feels they belong here is an essential part of who we are and the contribution we make to society, and to our planet.

To enable an environment which our people can thrive in, our customers benefit from, and where work complements life, we empower everyone to manage their time and capacity, and to prioritise their wellbeing. That's why from day one everyone at Cambridge University Press & Assessment can discuss flexible working options to find the best solution for them and their role.