Organisational Change Partner - £42, 869 p.a. + benefits
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- Apr 22, 2024 Post Date
We are currently looking for a Organisational Change Partner to join our Strategic Programme Delivery Function within the Enablement group.
This is a full-time opportunity, on a permanent basis. The role will be based in 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.
We are currently operate a flexible, hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 8 days per month working on site to enable the collaboration and contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business. Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature of the role, this can flex up to 12 days a month, with the remainder of time worked either remotely or in the office. Some roles will need to be on site more regularly.
Who are we?
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.
Strategic Programme Delivery oversees the governance and performance of programmes and projects that are delivering strategic change for the Agency, ensuring compliance to standards and best practice for programme and project delivery. The team is responsible for managing service transformation execution, change, delivery performance, financial performance, benefits and risk performance for these programmes and projects. The team are responsible for ensuring projects realise the benefits of a new Future Operating Model and drive modernisation, automation, and risk proportionality throughout the Agency. Furthermore, it will develop and build the capability to deliver a culture of continuous improvement through further phases of growth. It is also responsible for alignment with the strategic change objectives of the agency and plays a critical role in bringing all key stakeholders into the journey so that they are represented and understand the new vision for the Agency.
Strategic Programme Delivery oversees the governance and performance of programmes and projects that are delivering strategic change for the Agency, ensuring compliance to standards and best practice for programme and project delivery. The team is responsible for managing service transformation execution, change, delivery performance, financial performance, benefits and risk performance for these programmes and projects. The team are responsible for ensuring projects realise the benefits of a new Future Operating Model and drive modernisation, automation, and risk proportionality throughout the Agency.
What’s the role?
The role will drive the people related transition to and embedding of a new operating model within teams, in terms of their structure, roles, capabilities and ways of working. The role will involve supporting the Head of Strategic Change to ensure all Agency colleagues understand the change journey, the reasons for change and what change means for them. The role will also involve managing change impacts and the process to transition from the current to the future state through embedding behaviour change.
Key responsibilities:
· Change Management – Drives the sustainable and human centric change management approach inclusive of planning, managing and embedding change by engaging with all impacted business groups and levels of stakeholders across the Agency
· Stakeholder Management – Manages stakeholder groups across the Agency (including senior stakeholders and disengaged groups) appropriately, to support human centric change management and develop strategic relationships across a group of stakeholders.
· Culture Change – Works alongside the Head of Strategic Change in support of positive culture change through targeted interventions across the whole system to enable the required culture change
· Organisation Change – Drives the change aspect of organisational change activity that improves processes, measures, and accountabilities to optimise ways of working and enable business results.
Who are we looking for?
Our successful candidate will:
The successful candidate will have experience of applying change management theory and skills, with the ability to lead change across projects involving cross organisational and external team members. You will also have experience of engaging, challenging and supporting senior stakeholders in arriving at the right decisions. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, with the ability to accurately and confidently communicate, influence and challenge staff and external contacts at all levels. You are adept at making plans, preparing in advance and seeking to maximise time and productivity. You are also adaptable being able to be flexible and versatile and act as an advocate for change.
If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, please read our Job Description and Person Specification!
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The selection process:
We use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess our candidates, find out more here.
· Online application form, including questions based on the Behaviour, Experience and Technical Success Profiles. Please ensure all application questions are completed in full; your application may not be considered if any responses are left blank. Our applications are CV blind, and our Hiring Managers will not be able to access your CV when reviewing your application.
· Online application form, including a statement of suitability, attached as a PDF of no more than 750 words demonstrating how you meet the person specification. Please ensure all application questions are completed in full; your application may not be considered if any responses are left blank. Our applications are CV blind, and our Hiring Managers will not be able to access your CV when reviewing your application. Please ensure not to include any personal identifying information on your supporting information.
· Presentation, to be prepared as part of your interview, with further information being supplied when you reach this stage.
· Interview, which can include questions based on the Behaviour, Experience, Technical and Strengths Success Profiles.
Applicants are assessed on whether they meet any mandatory requirements as well as the necessary skills and experience for the role. Applications are scored based on the competency-based answers provided- ensure you have read these thoroughly and allow sufficient time. You can view the competencies for this role in the job description.
Applicants are assessed on whether they meet any mandatory requirements as well as the necessary skills and experience for the role. Applications are scored based on the statement of suitability provided. You can view the criteria for this role in the job description.
Applicants must ensure that anything submitted must be factually accurate and truthful. Plagiarism ‘can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
If you require any disability related adjustments at any point during the process, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk as soon as possible.
Closing date: 13th May 2024
Shortlisting date: 15th May 2024
Interview date: week commencing 27th May 2024
Candidates will be contacted within a week of the sift and the interviews completed to inform them of the outcome.
If you need assistance applying for this role or have any other questions, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk
Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here.
Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements. If you have any queries, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk.
In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should firstly contact Mira Mepa, Head of Recruitment and Operations, Mira.Mepa@mhra.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
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