Change Lead

Change Lead, English Culture Change Programme

Salary: £42,000 - £56,800

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term (18 Months), Full time 35 hours per week.

Are you passionate about driving change and leading transformative initiatives?

Join our team as a Change Lead for the English Culture Change Programme. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of our English Product Group globally, focusing on behaviours, mindsets, engagement, business processes, systems, and technology. If you have a knack for translating complex strategies into actionable plans and inspiring others to embrace change, we want to hear from you.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As the Change Lead, you will support the development and implementation of actions to enable and drive cultural change across the English Product Group globally and help us achieve our strategic ambitions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading change management activities, stakeholder analysis, and engagement.
• Driving change metrics and capturing change impacts.
• Managing change teams to deliver the change.
• Overseeing communications and engagement efforts in collaboration with our communications lead.
• Conducting learning needs analysis and readiness assessments.
• Ensuring action plans for sustaining change post-implementation.
• Lead change agent/champion teams to drive engagement and adoption of strategic changes.
• Empower others to manage and report on their activities independently. Inspire others to embrace change initiatives, overcoming barriers through proactive collaboration.
• Support in preparing our people for these changes, primarily targeting behaviours and mindsets, but also extending to business processes, systems, and technology.

About you

We are looking for a dynamic and strategic thinker who excels in communication, engagement, and influencing. You will be curious and passionate about trying new ideas, innovating, and continuously improving to contribute to our strategic priorities. You should be someone who challenges thinking and questions assumptions constructively. Additionally you will bring the following qualities, skills, and competencies:

Ability to translate complex ideas into actionable plans. Excellent skills in influencing and building and maintaining relationships. Leading and inspiring managers and teams to implement and embed changes that will enable and drive cultural change across English. Passionate about trying new ideas and continuously improving. Uses data from change readiness and impact assessments to inform decisions. Understanding of group psychology and behaviours, and their influence on change. Ability to design strategies to support managers in coaching their teams through change. Dealing with setbacks and learning from failures and adjusting behaviour as necessary. Reflects on and questions own assumptions to improve.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 23 November 2024 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are likely to take place from late November to early December 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.