Role: Change Manager REF 828
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Manchester or Bristol - no minimum onsite expectation
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £550-£600 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
About the Role
Spinwell is recruiting for a Change Manager an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a practical change and adoption plan across Funding Reform and Government Assurance Services (GAS, aligned with programme priorities and service delivery plans.
- Assess how changes affect departmental processes, governance, roles and users. Agree the actions needed to prepare departments and functions for implementation.
- Build relationships with stakeholders, secure senior sponsorship and establish a network of departmental change champions.
- Support departments to apply the new funding models within their own approval arrangements, working with finance, digital, commercial and assurance colleagues to resolve barriers.
- Coordinate onboarding to GAS and the Digital Business Case Service, agreeing readiness criteria, responsibilities, training and support arrangements.
- Develop clear communications, guidance and training materials that explain what is changing, why it matters and what people need to do.
- Work with product, service design and user research colleagues to ensure implementation experience and user feedback inform service improvements.
- Track adoption, readiness, risks and benefits. Report progress, escalate issues and use evidence to improve the approach.
- Create reusable guidance and onboarding materials so departments can implement changes with progressively less central support.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience delivering business change involving new processes, digital services or organisational ways of working.
- Ability to translate complex policy or technical changes into clear, practical actions for different audiences.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including working with senior leaders and resolving competing priorities.
- Experience assessing change impacts, planning implementation and evaluating business readiness.
- Experience developing communications, guidance, training or other support that helps people adopt change.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and adapt plans as services and policies develop.
- Ability to use data and feedback to assess whether change is being adopted and delivering the intended benefits.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Understanding of government funding, business cases, assurance or departmental approval processes.
- Experience supporting change across several departments or large organisations.
- Familiarity with agile delivery, user centred design and government digital standards.
- A recognised change management qualification or equivalent practical experience.
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