Main Responsibility
Your primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management approaches and plans that will increase benefit realisation, value creation and the achievement of results and outcomes for the projects you are assigned to. You will also be expected to coach senior leaders and people managers in helping them fulfil the role of change sponsor/leader for change initiatives in their areas. We also need you to look beyond the norm and be creative in the solutions that you propose to identify and realise business benefits.
NHG’s priorities include automation, efficiency for our people which enables us to deliver on our ambitions to deliver exceptional customer service to our residents. Our Programme Team is central to delivering these objectives and the Change Manager role is a key enabler in ensuring that we take our people along as we deliver these changes.
We’ll trust you to champion the cause of change management, utilising your excellent communication skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders across NHG and collaborate closely with other functions involved in delivering change initiatives. Working with different levels of stakeholders you’ll be able to articulate the needs of the business to the project team and provide tailored change management within the right context. You will be familiar with project management approaches, tools, and phases of a project lifecycle.
Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our service will be welcomed. This role will be both challenging and rewarding. You will be highly motivated, enjoy thinking strategically and challenging yourself to solve complex problems. You will also enjoy finding new ways of doing things and are comfortable explaining recommendations.
If the idea of being part of a team which is committed to making a real impact is of interest, then we’d love to hear from you!
Please note this is a 12 month secondment. Please note due to the urgency of the role the advert may close earlier than the deadline should we receive a high volume of suitable candidates.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have change management experience, excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills. You will also possess excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
What’s in it for me?
As part of our team, you will have access to professional qualifications and career opportunities across our Notting Hill Genesis business. You will also receive a generous holiday entitlement of 25 days, rising to 27 days after 2 years of service. You will also receive a simply health cash plan to help cover the costs of your everyday healthcare expenses (eg opticians, dentist, physio), generous pension scheme, and enhanced maternity pay and leave / shared parental leave options / paternity leave and access to our employee assistance programme for confidential support.
Benefits
In return we offer:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
- Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
About the Company
Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 67,000 homes and employ around 1,500 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://www.nhg.org.uk/about-us/
Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.
Our pledges
We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.
We have under-representation of ethnically diverse colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage ethnically diverse candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.
We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation.
To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.