Business Change Manager - MI6

Flexible Working: We support full-time, part-time, compressed, and flexible hours. We are committed to offering remote working in our organisation, however, our ability to do so is dependent on project requirements and business need.

About Us 

We’re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service. Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork. 

The Role 

As a Business Change Manager, you’ll be part of the Organisational Change team, which supports and enables transformation and delivers new capability to our organisation. You’ll ensure MI6, alongside our partners MI5 and GCHQ, deliver a world-class service giving us the edge over our adversaries to protect the UK and its interests.

As part of this vital team, you’ll improve and transform our capabilities, working on projects and change initiatives you’ll support our key business areas to overcome their most important challenges. Your role will be to act as a conscience, ensuring that people - not just process or technology - are at the heart of change. You’ll facilitate stakeholder engagement and ensure everyone plays their part in the process, making sure they’re ready to adopt new ways of working.

Day-to-day you’ll have a varied range of roles and responsibilities, act as an ambassador of change, you’ll manage change communications and ensure the proposed change meets the needs of the business and is implemented in line with the approach defined by the Change Delivery Lead. You’ll develop and deliver a benefits realisation plan, assessing business readiness for change and developing a transition plan alongside the Project Manager, whilst managing and mitigating risks. 

You’ll support the business area post-transition, to ensure change is sustained and benefits are realised throughout the change lifecycle. Finally, you’ll take a key training and coaching role, developing training needs analysis and planning training approaches for change, as well as mentoring and developing Change Analysts to grow within the organisation.

About You

You’ll have experience in change management or project delivery, or a professional change management qualification. You’ll have used your skills and experience to plan and deliver change in a benefits management framework, having used your solutions-oriented mindset to resolve day-to-day issues creatively and tactfully.

You’ll be eager to develop professionally, whilst staying up to date with the latest emerging change initiatives and approaches, as you apply Agile and Waterfall methodologies. A skilled communicator, you’ll influence a range of customers and stakeholders, collaborating with staff at all levels and mentoring junior members of the team. You’ll be supportive and proactive, identifying and removing items that inhibit progress, and maintaining a positive work atmosphere while you deliver challenging and complex projects.

Training and Development

When you join us, you’ll have a full induction to the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You’ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of business change, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.

We're committed to developing our staff and recognise that this will look different for everyone. That’s why we offer tailored training, mentoring, and a buddy scheme, working with you to build the skills you need. There’s plenty of room for growth in this role too, as we’ll support you through our Continuing Professional Development framework, in addition to creating a bespoke plan for your training and development.

There are also several development schemes available, including career pathways which cover specialism tracks, alongside the opportunity to achieve further change management qualifications to help you thrive in your career. 

Rewards and Benefits

You’ll receive a starting salary of £43,172 - £49,891 plus other benefits including:

• 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
• Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel)
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
• Paid parental and adoption leave

Equal Opportunities

At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website:

https://www.sis.gov.uk/explore-careers.html

We’re Disability Confident

MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our ‘Offer of Interview’ (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• A qualification in change management with some evidence of successful change delivery, or evidence of delivering successful change at programme.
• Ability to plan and deliver change in a benefits management framework.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to learning and development to remain aware of new change initiatives and approaches.

What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:

• Paper sift – you are advised to make full use of the word allowance for each question
• Interview
• Drugs test
• Vetting Interview

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.

Before You Apply

To work at MI6, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here.

This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. You can find out more about the vetting process here.

Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.

The role is based in London, so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application. An Interest-free loan via our benevolent fund is available to assist with relocating into privately rented accommodation to take up the offer of employment.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member. 

Right to Withdraw Statement:

Please be aware that we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment. 

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