Change Lead: Edib and Sustainability - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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3 weeks ago

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Job Title:
Change Lead, EDIB and Sustainability

Contract:12 month fixed term contract

Salary:
£54,700 - £67,000 plus comprehensive benefits

Location:
Cambridge / Hybrid working

Combining your knowledge and passion for Sustainability and Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belong, with your change management skills

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

Are you looking for a new challenge that will maximise your appetite for learning & growth?

Would you like to develop your change management skills & experience within our Cambridge change management centre of expertise so that you can lead people through change?

About the role

In this critical role, you will deliver flexible and innovative change management to support embedding our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), and Sustainability principles across English.

Through the creation and implementation of change management strategies & 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 front line employees build their readiness and adaptability to change.
As a skilled facilitator & listener you'll confidently develop key stakeholder relationships & 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.

About you

Combining your knowledge and passion for Sustainability and EDIB with your knowledge of implementing and embedding change in an organisation, you're able to successfully lead the implementation and measurement of our EDIB and Sustainability initiatives.

You are committed to supporting leaders to understand the approach, monitor success and embed the principles in their teams.

You continuously strive towards new and improved ways to capture the current position and proactively seek out new and up to date information which can be applied to real life challenges.

Through your experiences of 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 needed.

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

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

You understand psychology/behaviours and their influence on how people respond to transition & 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.

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._

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