About the job

Job summary

The Transformation and Change Division sits within the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Group within UK Export Finance (UKEF). The Division is responsible for delivery of, and assurance of, the Transformation and Change Plan, the portfolio of change within UKEF.

The Transformation and Change Plan covers the next 18 months of project and programme delivery and forecasts out by a further 18 months, covering Policy, Process, Digital and Technology change, focussing on delivering the Business Plan and new Target Operating Model.

Job description

The role of the Junior Business Change Manager is to proactively prepare the business for the impact of the changes being delivered by the project. The Junior Business Change Manager provides a bridge between the project and the business users to ensure that activities are planned and completed to enable the business to implement the agreed change and realise the business benefits.

Person specification

- Leadership & Delivery

• Provide visible and effective leadership, work with project managers to lead on business change activity and work with the project to support delivery of the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Champion the use of best practice and provide expert advice for team members and wider project community in UKEF.
• Assess and understand the impact on stakeholders to improve the likelihood of their adoption of the change.
• Support and when necessary, deputise for the Business Change lead in maintaining the Change Agents Network. Raising the profile of the network and overall awareness of change management across UKEF.

 - Business Case

• Support the Project Manager in preparing and updating the change management elements of the business case.

 - Change Products

• Provide input into creation of required Business Change products.
• Support the engagement of relevant business/end users during the change process.

 - Change Planning

• • Support the Project Manager in preparing and updating the change plan.

 - Business Readiness

• Support the Project Manager and business / end users in identifying, qualifying, and updating business readiness criteria before implementation
• Assist with relevant assurance activities as required to ensure that relevant internal and government standards have been met

 - Benefits Management

• • Support the Project Manager and stakeholders to identify and leverage benefits.

 - Change Communication

• • Support Project Manager and Business Change Lead to create, and maintain communications plan in relation to Business Change Management
  • Work closely with Communications Teams to draft messages in relation to Change Management across UKEF

 - Stakeholder Management

• • Support project managers to identify stakeholders in the projects, ensures their inclusion in stakeholder engagement plan.

 - Guidance & Support

• • Support Business Change Lead in implementation of the overall Change Management Framework across the Portfolio and UKEF.

This list is not exhaustive; you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business need.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,000, UK Export Finance contributes £9,990 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

You will be invited to complete the online application form.  The application form must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

All applications will be sifted against our minimum selection criteria outlined in the personal specification.

You will be asked in the relevant sections of the application form to provide examples of evidence against a range of the success profiles (refer to appendix 1).  Where applicants are asked to apply with a personal statement, you should fully articulate in 500 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack making use of the Project Delivery Capability Framework

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

• Experience
• Technical
• Behaviours (You will be required to write a 250-word statement on each):

 

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all three behaviours highlighted and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.
• Technical - a short presentation (this will be on a topic determined by UKEF and will need to be prepared in advance).

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.