Job Title: Change Lead

Contract: Fixed Term (1 Year), Part Time (28 hours per week)

Salary: £43,800 - £58,500 pro rata

Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid)

Are you ready to take on an exciting new challenge to enhance your expertise in change management within our Cambridge Change Management Centre of Expertise. Get ready to lead and inspire people through change!

About the Opportunity

We have a fixed-term opportunity for you to actively contribute to a wide range of change management initiatives across Cambridge University Press & Assessment; supporting our digital transformation, generative AI, organisational design & new ways of working. This role offers experience in the world of cultural, behavioural, process, system, and mindset changes, where you can drive meaningful impact. We're looking for an experienced change lead to support our strategic change.

About the role

In this critical role, you will deliver flexible and innovative change management to key cross-organisational programmes; whilst contributing towards our ongoing efforts to build enterprise change management capability. Through the creation and implementation of change management strategies and plans, you will build organisational capability and maximise employee adoption and the impact of these programmes. 

Great communication and stakeholder management will be key to your success, collaborating with senior leaders sponsoring change initiatives and helping frontline employees build their readiness and adaptability to change. As a skilled facilitator & listener you'll confidently develop key stakeholder relationships and conversations at all levels. Adapting your style and approach, you will cut through complexity, balancing the need for individual change with the strategic outcomes required. 

This role will enable you to help colleagues to think creatively and overcome problems and challenges; whilst continuing to develop your own change management skills and confidence.

A bit about you

Combining your curiosity and passion for trying new ideas with your knowledge of change management principles and methods, you're able to successfully lead the implementation and measurement of the people side of change to support digital transformation, AI and organisational design. You are committed to supporting managers to coach their people through complex change.

You continuously strive towards new and improved ways to tackle change management successfully: proactively seeking out new and up-to-date information which can be applied to real life challenges.

Through your experiences of managing and leading people through change, you will have high levels of change agility and adapt well when faced with complexity and ambiguity.  You respond well to setbacks and bounce back from failure, learning from the experience and adjusting, where necessary.

Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to identify both the overt and covert culture of our organisation, will help you quickly build credibility with stakeholders at all levels, positioning you as a trusted partner. 

You challenge thinking and question assumptions (including your own) in a constructive way.

You understand psychology/behaviors and their influence on how people respond to transition and change.

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:

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

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work 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 Friday 28^th March 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place shortly after.

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

Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

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.