Senior Business Change Manager Ref. 3278

Flexible Working: We support full-time, part-time, compressed, and flexible working patterns. Due to the nature of the role home working is limited and not guaranteed.

About Us

We're MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.

The Role

The world is full of change, and it's no different at MI6. It's an exciting time to join us, as we're looking at the way we work and embracing every opportunity to improve and develop our operations, capabilities and people. In this role you'll work across MI6, and UKIC (UK Intelligence Community) navigating complex and rapid change. You'll shape our transformation by translating business strategy into clear change strategies and plans. Collaborating and working with service leaders and either joining or leading multidisciplinary teams, you'll identify, change and transformation needs, deliver outcomes, and achieve strategic benefits, ensuring that people and organisational impacts are central to our change and transformation efforts.

As a Senior Business Change Manager, you'll partner with areas of the business undergoing rapid and long-term change. You'll translate organisational and business area strategies into strategic and business change outcomes and deliverables, ensuring we understand the people and organisational implications that will make the change successful, long lasting and coherent.

You'll support leaders to anticipate, assess and plan for change, applying a range of techniques to design, shape and embed change which addresses the true business needs and delivers tangible benefits. Considering locally initiated, enterprise-level, and portfolio-level changes, you'll use your professional business knowledge to work within, and sometimes lead, multi-discipline change teams. You'll plan, deliver, embed, and evaluate various changes across the business whilst evolving the framework through which leadership and management of change is continuously improved.

Importantly, Senior Business Change Managers will work collegially and collectively with service leaders, key business stakeholders, and the broader Organisational Change professionals. Through these collaborations you'll systemise and professionalise change across the Service, and jointly develop approaches to achieve shared objectives.

Through partnering you'll build change capability within the business area enabling others to understand, value and do change well, shifting mindsets to be open to change and able to respond to increasing amounts of change.

• Acts as the conscience for change in the business area
• Coaches and mentors service leaders to become informed and effective agents of change
• Establishes and manages mechanisms to measure and assure quality

About You

As a Senior Business change manager, you'll excel in change management, demonstrating effective strategies across various environments, from strategic to enterprise levels. You'll likely hold a professional qualification in change management or have equivalent experience.

You'll be a skilled people manager, leading and delivering through others, including blended staff and contractor teams. An effective communicator and facilitator, capable of coaching, mentoring, and influencing both colleagues and senior leaders.

You'll have a deep understanding of change theory and practice, and you'll be comfortable using a variety of tools, techniques, and approaches to navigate ambiguity and complexity.

You'll have experience in various roles such as Senior Change Manager, Lead Change Manager, or Head of Change Management. With a customer and outcome-orientated mindset, you'll build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organization. You'll partner collaborate, and influence at the director level to design, plan and implement change.

Training and Development

When you join us, you'll have a full induction into the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You'll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of business change, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.

We're committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We have an exceptional skills community, dedicated to supporting you. There'll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring, alongside opportunities to pursue career pathways which cover specialism tracks.

There's plenty of room for growth in this role too, as we'll support you through our Continuing Professional Development framework, in addition we'll cover the cost and provide support by offering opportunities to gain further recognized change management qualifications.

Whatever your professional goals, we'll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role, and throughout your career.

Rewards and Benefits

You'll receive a starting salary for a Senior Change Business of £69,043 to £74,216, dependent on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment of £5,128.

Other benefits also include:

• 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
• Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel)
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
• Paid parental and adoption leave

Equal Opportunities

At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website(s):
https://www.sis.gov.uk/explore-careers.html

We're Disability Confident

MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP's Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people.

Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our 'Offer of Interview' (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• A qualification up to practitioner level in change management with some evidence of successful change delivery, or evidence of delivering successful change at programme or portfolio level - assessed at application form sift.
• Demonstrate expertise in Agile methodologies and end-to-end change management within different environments - assessed at application form sift.
• Familiarity with a range of change management tools and frameworks - assessed at application form sift.
• Demonstrate the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels including presenting to senior stakeholders - assessed at application form sift.

What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
• Paper sift - you are advised to make full use of the word allowance for each question
• Interview
• Drugs test
• Vetting Interview

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.

Before You Apply

To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here .

This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It's something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. You can find out more about the vetting process here .

Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can't take any recreational drugs, and you'll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.

Before you apply, we advise you to consider setting up a separate email address for your contact with us, to ensure your personal and application correspondence remain separate. Try to avoid having identifying features in your email address, such as your first and/or surname and date of birth. This is good practise and will help you to manage your application with us more discretely.

The role is based in London, so you'll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member.

Right to Withdraw Statement:

Please be aware that we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

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