Business Change Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

As Business Change Officer, you will be responsible for proactively preparing the business for the impact of the changes being delivered by the programme. You will provide a bridge between the programme and the business to ensure that activities are planned and completed to enable the business to implement the agreed change and realise the business benefits.

This is aligned to the Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF) career pathway Business Change Manager 2. You can find more information about the PDCF on the gov.uk homepage (search "Project Delivery Capability Framework").

The Business Change Officer role is part of the Government Project Delivery Profession and UKHSAs Project Delivery Resource Model.

Essential Criteria

• Good understanding and experience of business change and implementation in a project environment or experience of change management in a non-project environment. (lead criteria)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Awareness or experience of using techniques to capture stakeholder needs, assess requirements, and identify delivery options.
• Awareness of business case development, benefits management, and change control.
• Awareness of planning, scheduling, assurance, risk and issue management and governance.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with multiple tasks.
• Strong capability in using Microsoft Office applications, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Selection Process Details

Stage 1: Application & Sift (Success profiles)

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 7 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 750 word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria
• Meets no essential criteria

We will take piles, 'meets all essential criteria' and 'meets some essential criteria' through to shortlisting.

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Good understanding and experience of business change and implementation in a project environment or experience of change management in a non-project environment.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment

Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (Success Profiles)

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Behaviours, experience and technical knowledge will be tested at interview.

Project Delivery knowledge will also be assessed through technical questioning.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be

• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Leadership

Interviews will be held week beginning 14th April. Please note these dates may be subject to change.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Selection Process

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

A reserve list of successful candidates will be held for 12 months. This will allow candidates on the reserve list to be appointed into a job family/comparable role should a suitable post become available.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Person Specification

Application form and statement of suitability

Essential

• Application form and statement of suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Delivering at pace
• Working Together
• Leadership

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)