Associate Director of Transformation Support

Job summary

Director of Transformation Support

• Imperial College Health Partners is a not for profit organisation, established by its constituent NHS and academic members. We exist to improve population health, and we do that by supporting partners to understand complex problems, to innovate, and to implement new approaches sustainably within complex systems.
• ICHP is also the designated Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North West London - one of 15 across England. We are funded through local member contributions, national NHS income as well as commercial income to ensure sustainability.
• We turn the potential of innovation into reality to help solve pressing challenges by collaborating across the health sector: by connecting a unique network of health experts, ICHP can accelerate the adoption and spread of innovation amongst our member organisations and beyond.
• Resolving complex problems require us to mobilise different types of skills, making use of a structured theory of change based on problem-solving, evidence-based innovation, and effective change management support. To make this happen, ICHP projects draw together team members from a variety of 'Skills Centres' within the organisation, alongside more generalist project support.

Main duties of the job

• The role of Associate Director is to support this type of complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.
• The role plans and oversees project delivery and programme delivery, drawing on skills and practices relating to problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflecting and learning.
• The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work, and taking a specific managerial responsibility for the development and growth of colleagues and teams, and for the development and growth of the organisation in general.

About us

• To reflect the experience and expertise of the role, Associate Directors sit within designated 'Skills Centres' within the organisation. Within a skills centre, the Associate Director takes responsibility for the development and dissemination of specific expert methods and practices; and acts as advisor/expert practitioner in the development/delivery of relevant project work. To be resident within a skills centre recognises and develops expertise; but the Associate Director should also participate in a more generalist or cross-functional work, as is necessitated by specific member and client demands.

For informal enquiries about the post: please contact Mark Kewley at: recruitment@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com