About the job

Job summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have experience of actively contributing to change management or organisational design initiatives?

Do you enjoy collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders and developing positive working relationships?

Would you embrace the opportunity to be involved in a complex programme, implementing new solutions across the department?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity available to join the Shared Services Implementation and Performance Team (SSIPT) and would love to hear from you!

Job description

As the People, Organisational Design (OD) & Change Advisor, you will support both the Change Manager and the Organisational Design and People Impacts Manager, ensuring successful transition and adoption to the new ways of working for Change Management and People Impact activities.

You will work alongside subject matter experts (SMEs), function leads and business units to support in identifying the key challenges and impacts that change will have in their areas. This will enable you to act as a bridge between the programme and the business users to ensure that change activities are planned, completed, and fully embedded across the Department.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to support people and teams in the changes that a transformational programme brings, supporting the Department for Transport (DfT) Group, and Executive Agencies, to transition to a new shared service provision from HMRC’s Unity Business Services, as part of the Unity Programme.

Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Managing change and OD Community of Practice across the Department to support implementation of the change management strategy, OD and People impacts plans across the Department.
• Supporting collaborative working relationships across Departments and with Unity Programme colleagues to ensure that messages are effective, products are impact assessed and all outputs are fit for purpose for use across DfT.
• Planning, monitoring, and maintaining project information, ensuring that reviews are undertaken following completion of key deliverables and stages.
• Supporting key business change and OD activities and documentation e.g., change impact assessments, change plans, change tool kit, business readiness approach and tracking.
• Being flexible and adaptable to undertake any other duties and reasonable programme wide requests as demand arises.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

You will have prior experience of working within either a project or programme environment and have knowledge of change management processes, including experience of delivering end-to-end change management and/or Organisational Design experience.

You will be an articulate communicator, who demonstrates confidence in liaising with a diverse range of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and will enjoy actively engaging with a range of contacts, developing positive and trusting relationships.

As well as being an excellent team player, you will be a proactive self-starter, who thrives working independently and using your initiative to make decisions with confidence.

You will either already hold at least one of the following qualifications or will be willing to work towards this once in the role:

• Certificate in Change Management Practise.
• Organisational Design foundation level.
• CIPD level 3 or higher.

Additional Information

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. 

This role is available to individuals who wish to be spending their office time in Swansea, Hastings, Leeds or Birmingham, and we would also expect the individual to be willing to occasionally travel to alternative DfT offices.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

How to Apply

When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words) please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:

• Supporting or leading the delivery of change management or organisational design activity within a large organisation or project/programme.
• Assessing the impact of change on the business and people across the breadth of a large and complex organisation.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships to lead and engage stakeholder groups to implement change across boundaries within a large organisation or within a project/programme.
• Planning, monitoring, and maintaining of change management or organisational design project plans.

The sift is due to take place from 20/02/2024.

Interviews are likely to be held from 06/03/2024.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• an interview

This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Document Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.

Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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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.