Change Manager (6 month FTC)

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Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

The Change Manager will work with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) the Evolving GEL Oversight Group and the supporting SME Group to plan, deliver and embed an engaging organisational structural and operating model change.

They will create and run interventions and collate outputs on an iterative change plan which enables this change to be designed and begin implementation from the 30 March 2025.

Job Description

• Support Organisational Design: Tailor approaches and tools to align with the CEO's vision and the Evolving GEL Oversight Group's goals, ensuring strategic alignment and decision-making support.
• Coordinate Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate team-based exercises with SMEs to design current and future state models, ensuring input is formatted for decision-making and participant engagement.
• Team Structure Evolution: Apply Team Topologies and other aligned frameworks to shape the evolution of team structures, roles, and responsibilities.
• Manage Change Dimensions: Ensure interventions are mindful of structural, operational, and individual change factors, with a holistic approach to each phase of the change process.
• Anticipate and Mitigate Challenges: Identify potential change challenges, ensuring teams and individuals are prepared, while leveraging past experiences to prevent recurring issues.
• Drive Change Delivery: Work with the Strategy and Performance Lead to deliver change according to vision, measuring success against original principles, and ensuring milestones and clear outputs are achieved.
• Foster Collaboration & Communication: Build strong relationships across teams, providing strategic advice on inclusive, collaborative, and well-communicated change processes, while managing confidentiality within a small, agile team.

Qualifications

While we recognise the value of relevant qualifications or certifications, we are primarily interested in your real-world experience. You must have proven experience in organisational design, end-to-end process improvement, and change management to be successful in this role.

Additional Information

Salary from: £75,000

This is a 6 month FTC and the closing date for applications is 29 November 2024.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England's policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.