Senior Change Manager

Package Description

Job Reference: 22381

Band: D

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Attachment until March 2026

Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House - This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression– the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities– our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a centralised project team operating at the heart of all complex transformation projects across the whole of the News Division.  We are seeking experienced Senior Change Managers.

Main Responsibilities

The primary role for the Senior Change Manager is to carry out key practitioner activities in conjunction with the Change Lifecycle such as:

• Undertake Detailed Change Impact Analyses
• Perform ADKAR Assessments
• Creating Change Personas and Empathy Maps
• Stakeholder Identification and Mapping
• Stakeholder Management and Engagement in accordance with an overarching approach
• Managing a Change Champion Network
• Building and executing a Change Management Plan including communications and training
• Carrying out a Training Needs Analysis
• Preparing for and supporting transition to BAU
• Change reporting for governance purposes

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You will work closely with other Change Team members to ensure there is a clear understanding of what is changing, why and  the impact of that change.

Are you the right candidates?

• A Change Management qualification
• Knowledge and understanding of a range of change management tools and techniques (Prosci preferred but not essential)
• A demonstrable record of implementing change on projects of scale and complexity
• Evidential history of working on  operating model redesign initiatives
• Extensive experience of managing stakeholders across a busy and saturated change landscape
• A self-starter attitude with excellent organisation skills
• The ability to operate within and maximise a Change Framework

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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