Strategic Change Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Position Details
Executive Support

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263, with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to 31/07/2025

Closing date: 3 rd April 2024

This role is also open as an internal secondment opportunity which would need to be agreed by your current line manager.

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Background
Strategic Programme Development & Change is a newly formed, high-performing, friendly team with an exciting and challenging remit.

We have a critical strategic development and implementation role within the University, and our capabilities are used to bring stakeholders together, agree strategic direction and deliver outcomes.

We are providing support to senior leaders to meet the University's ambitions to be a Global Top 50 institution, solving tricky problems and finding solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing our organisation.

Our work is both stretching and rewarding, and no two days are ever the same.

We are looking for a
Strategic Change Officer to join our existing highly regarded change management unit that forms part of the overall Strategic Programme Development & Change team.

The change management unit, working to a significant portfolio of complex change initiatives of strategic importance to the University, has two particular remits:

To provide
change leadership capacity that can operate collaboratively and flexibly across the institution
To create
change, process review and improvement **capability that spreads across the institution

We are looking for a highly motivated colleague who:

has experience of delivering outcomes in a complex and fast paced environment and has the resilience to work in ambiguity and with changing priorities,

- as part of a team can think strategically, identifying ways forward and developing creative solutions to complex problems;
- is adept at building relationships across organisational boundaries, and leveraging these relationships to deliver successful outcomes,
- and is a highly effective communicator, who can work collaboratively as part of a project team.

We are open and welcoming to people from all walks of life and believe that a diverse team with a mix of perspectives and experiences provides the best environment for success.

We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach and are looking to recruit an individual who has values in line with ours:
Ambitious, Open, Responsible, Collaborative and Innovative.

Strategic Programme Development & Change is part of a wider Executive Support Division that includes Strategic Planning & Performance Insight, Executive Office, Legal Services, and Governance Support, and we meet regularly to share our work and successes, and to learn together.

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